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HISTORY OF THE PROGENITORS 

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SOME SOUTH CAROLINA DESCENDANTS 

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Olnlottfl Ann l^amk^a l^ag 

WITH COLLATERAL GENEALOGIES 

A. D. 500 - 1 908 




BY CHARLES J. COLCOCK, C. E. 






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'T'HIS History of their Ancestors and Descendants is 
dedicated to the memories of Susan C. Hay and Eliza 
Hay Colcock as a token of his affection by the Author. 



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jEVEN years ago, the writer of this httle volume 

S^ secured the services of a capable agent, Mrs. Laura 
^ Nichols Graham (her present address, "The Cum- 
^ berland," Washington, D. C), who embarking at 
Boston, Massachusetts, set sail for Kingston, Island 
of Jamaica, duly commissioned with the task of 
examining all records on file relating to Michael and his only son, 
Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay. 

It was known that the former, emigrating from Scotland in 
the early part of the eighteenth century, had settled at Kingston; 
whilst the latter, with a half uncle, later the Rev. Isaac Wilkins, 
D. D., had been sent to New York to be educated, and had mar- 
ried there when eighteen years of age Martha, a daughter of the 
Hon. William Smith, Judge of the Supreme Court of New York 
and a native of England. 

Of twelve children surviving from this union, left orphans 
at a tender age by the early death of their father, the eldest son 
had remained in the State of New York, where he married and 
left descendants ; a daughter, Janet, marrying Mr. Campbell, had 
removed to the State of Louisiana ; whilst the remainder and a 
widowed mother had settled finally in the State of South Carolina. 

Scarce more thpn infants when their father died, his valuable 
papers having been destroyed at his home in Haverstraw on the 
Hudson during the war of the American Revolution, the lineage 
of Colonel Hay was unknown to his children beyond the tradition 
that he was directly descended from an ancient house. Hay of 
Erroll, confirmed by the following coat armor handed down to 
them : "A field argent charged with three shields gules within a 
bordure nebule of the last ; for crest, a hand proper holding an 
ox-yoke ; motto, 'Laboranti Palma.' " 



X PREFACE 

Faithfully did Mrs. Graham execute the laborious duty as- 
signed to her. Guided by "Archer's Monumental Inscriptions," 
after a diligent search under a tropical sun in July, she fovmd 
herself sweeping the accumulated dust of one and a half centuries 
from the foot-worn marble slab fitted over a vault in the centre 
aisle of the Kingston parish church, and transcribing therefrom 
the half obliterated superscription relating to what had been ani- 
mate of the remains of Michael Hay, his daughter Isabella Rich- 
mond, and his wife's cousin german, Mrs. Alexander Grant. In 
one grave, just outside the church, had been interred the bodies 
of three infant children of Colonel Hay and his wife Martha 
Smith, their burial records being preserved at Spanish Town, to 
which the Jamaica archives had been removed for safe keeping. 

The documents copied by Mrs. Graham at Spanish Town 
show that Michael Hay had been a wealthy planter possessed of 
several estates and many slaves in Jamaica, and had married soon 
after his arrival in that island Esther, daughter of the eminent 
Judge Martin Wilkins, one of the Associate Justices of Jamaica 
Island, whose family had emigrated from Glamorganshire, Wales. 

To the above marriage one son had been born, Ann Hawkes 
Hay, whose peculiar name was bestowed in compliment to a ma- 
ternal great aunt, Ann Wilkins Mister, who made him her heir 
after the death, with no surviving issue, of her daughter Martha, 
wife of Dr. Alexander Grant of Jamaica, whose family may be 
distinguished by his coat of arms charged with three crowns to 
be seen on his tombstone. 

A paragraph in the testament of Michael Hay mentioning 
"The children of my sister Jane, spouse of Dr. George Bethune 
of Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland," the services of Mr. Henry Paton, 
I20 Polwarth Terrace, Recorder in Edinburgh, were secured, and 
he was empowered to delve amongst the musty volumes in the 
Scottish offices of registry for mention of Michael Hay and Jean 
Hay Bethune in the hope that this would reveal their parentage. 

It may be seen by examining the documents presented later in 
this work that this expectation was realized by evidence showing 
that the parents of Michael were Thomas Hay, writer in Edin- 
burgh, and writer to the Signet, who died in 1728, and his wife 
Isabel Balfour, who died in 1745, naming in her testament her hus- 



PREFACE xi 

band Thomas Hay, writer in Eilinburj^di, and ihrcc children, 
Michael, Andrew, and Jean, spouse of Dr. George Bethune of 
Cupar, Fifeshire. 

Mr. Paton also extracted a paper executed by Michael Hay, 
in which he describes himself "Eldest lawful son and apparent 
heir to Thomas Hay, writer in Edinburgh," dated 1745, Kingston, 
Jamaica; and another drawn by Jean Hay, dated Cupar, 1746, 
describing herself "Spouse of Dr. George Bethune of Cupar, 
Fifeshire, and lawful daughter to Thomas Hay, writer in Edin- 
burgh." Both of these wxre executed just after their mother's 
death in 1745. 

Thus was found, what in genealogical tracing is the most 
difficult link in a chain of descent, the connection between the first 
American ancestor and his progenitors in Great Britain. 

The parentage of Thomas Hay, wTiter in Edinburgh, was next 
established by "A Letter of Factory," dated Rome, Italy, 1721, 
written by Andrew Hay, describing himself "lawful son of James 
Hay of Carriber," and appointing as his legal representative in 
Scotland "Thomas Hay, writer in Edinburgh, my brother german, 
in whom I have every confidence" ; and also by a document dated 
17 — , "by Andrew Hay of Bridgehouse, son of Thomas Hay of 
Carriber, writer in Edinburgh and wTiter to the Signet," together 
with a deed executed by "Thomas Hay, writer in Edinburgh," 
referring to his estate of Bridgehouse formerly belonging to Sir 
David Balfour of Forrett (his wife's father), witnessed by Michael 
Balfour (his brother-in-law for whom his son Michael had been 
named). The will of James Hay of Carriber, drawn up many 
years before his decease, mentions his w'ife Magdalen Robertson, 
his brother Mr. John Hay of Woodcockdale, and three sons, John, 
George, and Andrew ; and provides for children not yet born. 

That James subsequently had a son Thomas is shown by the 
letter of factory written by his son Andrew, extracted from above; 
and that he had two daughters, Christian and Grizel (Grace), is 
shown in the will of their brother John, which mentions them and 
their husbands, Andrew Marjoribank, and Thomas Boyes. 

In a "History of Writers to the Signet." published in Edin- 
burgh, occurs a sketch of James Hay of Carriber, wdiich mentions 
his death in 1702, and states that he married Magdalen Robertson, 
and was the son of Mr. David Hay of Woodcockdale, Clerk of 



xii PREFACE 

Sessions ; while a legal document dated 1646, extracted from the 
Edinburgh records by Mr. Paton, refers to Mr. David Hay of 
Woodcockdale and his spouse Jean Winrame (or Winrihame). 

Thus, by documents secured through the invaluable assistance 
of Mrs. Graham in Jamaica and Mr. Paton in Edinburgh, the 
lineage of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay was successfully traced back 
through four generations in Scotland, and it became known with 
what families of Great Britain he was related. 

The aid of some of these kinsmen was now invoked by cor- 
respondence, and much valuable information afforded by letters 
to the writer received from the Duke of Sutherland, Sir Lewis 
John Erroll Hay, 9th Baronet of Park, Sir Archibald Dunbar of 
Elgin, Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon of Scotland, and the 
Rev. James Bonallo of Auldearn, and a very complete chart from 
Mr. William Hay of Edinburgh, which connects Thomas Hay, 
writer in Edinburgh, 1725, with his progenitor William de la Hay, 
who died 11 70, and was the cup-bearer to Malcolm IV. and William 
the Lion. 

In one of his letters. Sir Lewis Erroll Hay enclosed a little 
pamphlet, "The Culbin Sands," in which the author, Mr. George 
Bain of Nairn, Scotland, made a beautiful reference to the Hays- 
of Lochloy, ancestors to Hay of Woodcockdale. 

This led to a correspondence with Mr. Bain replete with most 
valuable information germain to this work. In this place, the 
writer begs to express his most sincere gratitude to Mr. Bain for 
his great kindness in contributing to this little work, freely and 
without price, from his extensive store of knowleiige relating to- 
"The Hays of Lochloy." But for such assistance this family his- 
tory would have been very incomplete, and every descendant of 
"the knightly family of Hay of Lochloy" or of "Rose, Barons 
of Kilravock," or of any prominent family of Nairnshire, is urged 
to secure a copy of this "History of Nairnshire," which may be 
had by enclosing three dollars and sixty cents to Mr. George Bain,. 
Editor of the Nairnshire Telegraph, Nairn, Scotland. 

The following authorities are among those consulted in- 
preparation of this work: 

The books of Baronetage and Peerage by Burke, by Douglas, 
by Sharp, and by Debrett; Burke's "History of the Commoners,"' 
the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," Chambers' Encyclopaedia, and; 



PREFACE xiii 

"The National Biography" ; the histories of Scotland by Scott, by 
Robertson, and by Lang; Browne's "History of the Scotch High- 
landers"; "The American Arcliives"; "Smith's History of New 
York"; "New York in The Revolution"; "A Genealogical Deduc- 
tion of the I'amily of Rose, barons of Kilravock" ; "A History of 
Nairnshire," by Mr. George Bain; "Great Historic Families of 
Scotland," by Dr. Taylor, and "The Bruces and Cumyns," by Mrs. 
Gumming Bruce. 

Acknowledgment is likewise made to Miss Mary Erskine Hay 
for her valuable assistance in verifying records, and to any others 
who have aided by supplying information for this modest little 
work which though full of faults, it is hoped may yet be free from 
errors. 

Should any feel inclined to criticise the introduction of col- 
lateral ancestors, so styled, into this family history, let them realize 
it is the design of the author to set forth the lineage of Golonel 
Hay, that it is a convention of man which transmits the name to 
the male posterity, inheriting the blood and characteristics of the 
mother equally with those of the father, and frequently to a more 
pronounced degree — a law of nature recognized by the ancient 
Gael in the custom of "Tanistry" regulating the succession of his 
kings. Who, attempting to describe a mighty stream flowing into 
the broad ocean, would neglect to take into account its tributary 
sources, which, intermingling with the central current, blend to 
form the perfect whole rolling on in majesty, having acquired 
dignity from its length and grandeur from its breadth? 

If any Hay progenitors, as those of many another American 
family, are of noble and royal lineage, even in a democratic coun- 
try, this circumstance should not preclude their introduction into 
a work designed as a monument to its past, in which are to be 
engraven the names of ancestors who have borne important parts 
in shaping the world's history, bequeathing to posterity records 
of greatness for inspiration, and examples of usefulness for imita- 
tion. 

In preparing this volume, the writer hopes he may incite others 
of South Carolina to follow his example, each perpetuating the 
memory of his fathers in form more durable than marble or brass ; 
and while drawing much of his material from the history of the 



xiv PREFACE 

past, he yet adds material that is new, moulding it into such 
coherency that it may serve some useful purpose to the historian of 
the future. 

Such is the ambition of this delver in the ashes of the past — 
the ashes of those who have experienced the soft emotions of love 
and been stirred by the turbid passions of ambition, which, break- 
ing down the artificial divisions of time, prove universal humanity 
akin, and thus will his labor serve an end more extensive than is 
generally implied in a family genealogy, of a dignity, however, 
sufficient in itself to justify its compilation. 

Errollton Cottage, C. J. C. 

Lyndhurst, South Carolina, 
25 July 1907. 



PART I 

Carlp Ji)i^ttivp 



|HICH presents to the reader a review of a section 

W^ of the early history of Scotland, and introduces 
^ Colonel Hay's Gaelic ancestors, whose names in 
i ^ ^'^^^ sketch are distinguished from other names by 

^^^^^^^ being marked with a star. The authorities from 
whose works these facts are extracted have been 
mentioned in the preface to this work. 

The Scoto-Irish, a branch of the great Celtic family, are sup- 
posed to have crossed to Ireland from North Britain and settled in 
Ulster. The most powerful of its two tribes was the Cruithne. 

About the year 250, Carmac, King of Ireland, sent his cousin, 
General *Cairbre-Riada, to quell disturbances among these kindred 
Gaelic clans, who conquered a territory of about thirty miles extent 
in northeast Ireland, which was granted to him by the king, and 
over its inhabitants his posterity ruled for several ages, giving to 
its natives the name of Dal-Riads. 

A colony of the Dalriadic Celts, who were Christians, crossed 
over to Scotland, then inhabited by the Picts. 

In the year 503. a second colony of the Dalriads (the first 
having been driven back to Ireland), under three brothers — Lorn, 
Feargus, and Angus — sons pf *Erc, a descendant of Cairbre-Riada, 
settled in what is now Cantyre. From these brothers spring the 
Scoto-Irish, or Gaelic, kings of Scotland. 

During the reign of Conal, fifth in line, his kinsman, St. 
Columba, with twelve disciples, crossed from Ireland and founded 
in the island of "I" the monastery of lona. and thence made 
pilgrimages among the Picts, whom he Christianized, building 
monasteries as centres of religion. 



2 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

The period between 503 and 836 was spent in struggles be- 
tween the Scots, the Picts, and the Saxons of Northumberland, 
resulting finally in a conquest of the Picts (oppressed on the coast 
by the Nord Vikings), under their last king, Wred, by the Scots 
under *Kenneth, son of *Alpin, son of *Eocha IV. by his wife 
*Urgusia, daughter of a King of the Picts. *Kenneth Macalpin 
united the rival kingdoms of Picts and Scots, and transmitted the 
Celtic blood to his descendant * Malcolm Cawnmohr, who, by his 
marriage to the Saxon princess *Margaret, daughter of *Aedward 
the Aetheling, added the blood of *Aelfred the Great to the stem 
of sovereigns of Scotland and of England and of their posterity. 

The following chronological table of the Scoto-Irish kings 
connects the three sons of Ere with Malcolm III. In this line, and 
in the "Saga of Harald Haarfager," the ancestors of Colonel Ann 
Hawkes Hay are distinguished from other names by being marked 
by an asterisk: 



I 

2 
3 

4. 
5 
6 

7 
8. 

9 

10, 
II 
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13 
14 

IS 
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17. 
18. 

19 

20 
21 
22 

23 
24 

25 



Lorn, *Fergus, and Angus reigned 503-506. 
*Domangart, son of Fergus, 506-511. 

Comgal, son of Domangart, 511-535. 
*Gauran, son of Domangart, 535-557. 

Conal, son of Comgal, 557-571. 
*Aidan, son of Gauran, 571-605. 
*Eocha-Bui, son of Aidan, 605-621. 

Kenneth I., son of Eocha-Bui, 621-621. 

Ferchar, son of Eogan, ist of race of Lorn, 621-637. 
*Donald-Breac, son of Eochar-Bui, 637-642. 

Conal II., grandson of Conal I. 

Dongal, who reigned several years with 'Conal, 642-652. 

Donal-Buin, son of Conal, 652-55. 

Maol-Duin, son of Conal, 655-81. 

Fercha-Fada, grandson of Fercha I., 681-702. 
*Eochar II., son of Domangart, grandson of Donal-Breac, 702-705. 

Ainbhcealach, son of Fercha-Fada, 705-706. 

Silvach, son of Fercha-Fada, reigned over Lorn 706-729. 

Duncha-Beg, reigned over Cantyre and Argail until 720, and over 
Lorn 729-733- 
*Eocha III., son of Eocha II., reigned over Lorn 720-729. 

Muredach, son of Ainbhcealach, 733-736. 

Eogan, son of Muredach, reigned over Lorn, 736-739. 
*Aodh-Fin, son of Eocha III., reigned over Lorn 739-769. 

Fergus, son of Aodh-Fin, reigned 769-772. 

Selvach II., son of Eogan, 772-796. 



TIIR I'AMir.Y OF HAY 3 

26. *Eocha IV. (st)nutimes called Achaius), son of Aodh-Fin, married 

♦Urgusia of Furgusia, daughter of Fergus, King of tiie Picts, 
reigned from 796 to 826, 30 years. 

27. Dungal, son of Selvacli II., reigned from 826 to 833. 

28 *Alpin, son of Eocha IV. (or Achaius) by his Pictish wife, the 
Princess Urgusia, succeeded to the throne of the Scots, and 
claimed the kingdom of the Picts A.D. 833. He had two sons :— 
Kenneth and Donald. 

29. *Kenncth II., son of Alpin, known as Kenneth MacAlpin, reigned 

from 836 to 843. The warlike Picts offered no great resistance, 
perhaps submitted without resistance, to his claim to the throne 
by virtue of descent from their Princess Urgusia. Thus was 
united the races which formed the elements of the picturesque 
Scotch Highlander, and thus was the blood of the Picts and 
Scots transmitted to the dynasty of Kenneth Macalpine, which 
continues as follows : — 
He had two sons : — Constantine and Eth. 

30. Donald, brother of Kenneth II., reigned from 859 to 863. 

31. *Constantine IL, son of Kenneth Macalpin, was taken captive by 

the Danes and beheaded in 878. 

32. Eth, or Aodh, or Hugh, brother of Constantine II., reigned one 

year and was slain by Grig in fight near Strathallan. 

He left sons: — Constantine (from whom descended the royal 
family of Scotland, the Bruces, and the Baliols) and Doir, the 
Thane of Lochaber. 

The Thanes of Lochaber, and the Great Stewards of Scotland 
also claim descent from Eth through Fleance, son of Banquo. 
2S. Grig, Gregory, or Cyric, now usurped the throne, and associated 
with him Eocha, grandson of Kenneth M'Alpine by his daugh- 
ter who had married Cu, British prince of Strath-Clyde. 

In 893 Eocha died, and Donald, son of Constantine II, took 
Eocha's place. 
34 *Donald II., son of Constantine II., outlived Grig four years and 
was killed at Fores in a struggle to subdue the province of 
Moray. He transferred the seat of government from Fort- 
Teviot to Scone. 

35. Constantine III., son of Eth, succeeded, and after a long reign 

retired to a monastary A.D. 943, and d. at St. Andrews 952. 

36. *Malcolm I., son of Donald II., succeeded, and was slain by the 

Moray men two miles from Fores. 

He left three sons : — Duff, Kenneth, and Mogall, the father of 
Grim. 
27. Indulph. son of Constantine, succeeded, and was the first King of 
Scotland to take Edwinsburgh. He was slain by the Norse- 
men at Invercullen, A.D. 962, and left two sons: — Culin (Colin) 
and Eocha. 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 

38. Duff, eldest son of Malcolm I., succeeded, but was opposed by 

Culin, and was murdered at Fores by Donald, the Governor of 
Fores Castle, a partisan of Culin. Duffus Castle was the north- 
ern residence of Duff. 

39. Culin succeeded and reigned four years, when he fell with his 

brother Eocha, in a battle with the Britons of Strath-Clyde. 

40. *Kenneth III., brother of Duff and son of Malcolm I., succeeded. 

He married a daughter of William Long-Epee, Duke of Nor- 
mandy, by whom he had children : — Malcolm, and Duncleda, 
who married Kenneth, Thane of Lochaber, and was the mother 
of Banquo. 

He was assassinated by the Lady Fenella, daughter of 
Cruichne, Earl of Angus, who was the agent of disaffected 
claimants to the succession under the law of tanistry, which 
Kenneth abolished. 

41. Constantine IV., son of Culin, usurped the throne, but was slain 

in battle on the Almond River, in battle with Malcolm, son of 
Kenneth. 

42. Grim, son of Mogall, nephew of Duff, usurped the throne north 

of Forth. He is sometimes called Kenneth M'Duff. 

43. *Malcolm II., son of Kenneth III., succeeded on the death of 

Grim. His reign was disturbed by Uchtred, son of Waltheof, 
Earl of Northumberland. He was attacked when 80 years of 
age, near Glamis, by a ruffian band, and died three days after 
from loss of blood. He settled his dominions upon his grand- 
son Duncan. 

He had three daughters : — 

i. *Bethoc, or Beatrix, m. Crynan (or Grimus), Chief of 
Athol, lay-abbot of Dunkeld, and Abthane of the 
Western Isles, by whom a son Duncan, 
ii. *Alice or Olith, m. Sigurd Lodvison, Earl of Orkney, 
and was great-grandmother of Hace, Earl of Orkney, 
whose daughter and heiress Margaret, Countess of 
Orkney, m. Madoch, Earl of Atholl, from whom de- 
scend the Scandinavian earls of Orkney, the St. Clairs, 
and Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, who also descends from 
Bethoc. 
iii. *Dovada, wife of Earl Finlath, and mother of 
M'Beth, is also said to have been a daughter of King 
Malcolm. 

44. *Duncan, son of Bethoc by Crinan, grandson of Malcolm, suc- 

ceeded to the throne. He had three sons : 

i. *Malcolm, afterward King Malcolm Cawnmohr. 
ii. *Donald Bane (vide Comyn, sec. vi., part ii.). 
iii. *Melmare, Earl of Atholl, whose son Madoch, Earl 
of Atholl, m. his cousin Margaret, Countess of Orkney. 



Till': l-AMILY ()!• JIAY 5 

All of tliL'so children were ancestors of Colonel Hay. 
Duncan was slain by Macbeth, under the influence of 
his wife the Lady Gruach, the Lady Macbeth of 
Shakespeare, praiidaugiitcr of Kenneth IV., who by 
her first husband Gilcomgain had a son Lulach who 
d. 1058, leaving a line of claimants to the throne. 

It is said, but not credited, that King Malcolm II. 
put to death M'Boedc (son of Boede, son of Kenneth 
III.), brother of the Lady Gruach, and this caused 
the murder of King Duncan. 

45. Macbeth, wiio slew King Duncan circa 1040, usurped the throne 

in the name of his step-son's rights, and reigned with great 
ability until 1058, when he was slain in battle by MacDuff, 
Thane of Fife, whose descendants were granted the privilege 
of crowning the subsequent Kings of Scotland. 

46. *MaIcolm III., surnamed Cawnmohr, son of Duncan I., now as- 

cended the throne, and was one of Scotland's greatest sover- 
eigns. He married Margaret (called for her sanctity St. Mar- 
garet), sister of Aedgar the Actheling, daughter of Aedward 
the Aetheling, lineal descendant of King Aelfrcd the Great, 
and by her Malcolm had sons : Alexander ; Edgar ; and David 
(successively kings) ; and a daughter Matilda m. King Henry 
I., of England. 

The history of Scotland will now be resumed where it was 
interrupted by this genealogical digression. 

Malcolm III., surnamed Cawnmohr, reigned from 1058 to 
1093. He m. 1st Ingebiorge dau. of the Northman, Earl Thorfinn, 
and had by her a son Duncan. The King married 2d Margaret, 
the beautiful and saintly sister of the Aetheling, at Dunfermline, 
"where the King in the ballad sits drinking his blood-red wine." 

*Gospatrick, kinsman of Malcolm, and descended from 
Crinan's line, was Earl of Northumberland, but, engaging in an 
insurrection against William the Conquerer, took refuge in Scot- 
land, A. D. iqTjS. and was granted by the king, the lands of Dun- 
bar, and founded the house of Dunbar and March, so famous in 
later years for both good and evil. 

"^^Waltheof, son of Earl Siward, by Elfleda, daughter of Earl 
Aldred, was made Earl of Northumberland by King William, and 
married Judith, the Conqueror's niece, by whom he was later be- 
trayed to her uncle, and William's ill fortune has been dated from 
the cruel execution of Earl Waltheof, who, having been invited 



6 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

to engage in a rebellion against the Normans, refused, but, in 
loyalty to his friends, failed to expose the conspiracy. 

On November 13, 1093, King Malcolm was slain near Alnwick 
while leading an army against Rufus, his son Edward falling with 
him. St. Margaret died broken-hearted at Edinburgh Castle and 
was laid to rest at Dunfermline. 

His son Duncan had been carried as a hostage to England 
by William after a meeting with Malcolm at Abernethey on the 
Tay, and by Queen Margaret he left surviving children, Eadmund, 
Aethelred lay Abbot of Dunkeld, Aedagar, Alexander, and David 
later the First. 

He left brothers Donald Bane (from whom in the female line 
descended the Red Comyn) and Melmare. 

Donald Bane was made king by the Celtic element, was driven 
from the throne by his nephew Duncan, who was slain six months 
later by the men of Moearn and their Mormaor, Malpeter Macloen, 
and Donald Bane restored who ruled north of Forth while his 
nephew Aedmund ruled in Lothian, until with the aid of his ma- 
ternal uncle, Aedgar the Aetheling, the younger brother Aedgar 
was placed upon the throne, who put out the eyes of his paternal 
uncle Donald while his brother Aedmund died in an English 
cloister. With Donald Bane was ended the reign of the pure Celtic 
line in Scotland. 

Aedgar reigned from 1097 to 1107. His sister Eadgyth, or 
Matilda, married *Henry L of England, bequeathing the blood of 
*Aelfred the Great to its successive sovereigns. Eadgar died 1107 
and Alexander L, his brother, became King of the Scots, while 
*David became Earl of Lothian and Cumbria, residing for a 
lengthy period at his sister's court in London. 

Alexander L was styled "The Fierce" for his retaliation on 
the Celts of Moray and A'learns, who attacked him at Invergowrie, 
hard by Dundee, and nearly took his life. After his victory against 
them at Spey, he founded the monastery of Scone, and its charters 
were attested by Heth of Moray, who married the daughter of 
Lulach, son of Gruach — The Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare — 
granddaughter of Kenneth IV. ; the descendants and pretended 
posterity of this marriage became a disturbing element to later 
reigns. Other witnesses to this charter were Madach of Athol, 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 7 

*Malise Earl of Slratheai 11, Dufagaii uf I'ifc, Gratiiacli and Rory 
(of Angus, Buchan or Mar). 

He was the first to introduce charters north of Forth, and the 
last Scottish king who rehcd mainly upon tiic old Celtic and Anglo- 
Norse element ; his successor being educated at the English court, 
encouraged the Anglo-Normans to settle in North Scotland, de- 
porting many of the Highland Scots into the lowdands to make 
room for the Southrons, no doubt causing them much suffering 
and distress. 

Alexander was a resolute and astute Prince ; he married 
Sibylla, a daughter of Henry I., but died at Stirling 25 Apl. 1124, 
and was succeeded by his brother David. 

With *David I. (1124-1153) Anglo-Norman and English in- 
fluence was established in Scotland, for he had lived many years 
at his sister's court in London, and was partial to the Norman and 
his customs. It has been shown that David was the youngest son 
of *Malcolm Caummohr by his wife the Saxon *Princess Margaret, 
daughter of Aedward the Aetheling, who while a refugee in Europe 
had married a Hungarian lady of rank. *David had married 
Matilda (or Maud), widow of Simon of St. Liz, heiress of 
Waltheof by his wife *Judith, niece of William the Conqueror, and 
thus brought Scotland the unfortunate claim upon Northumber- 
land. On August 22, 1 138, at Cowton Moor, near Northallerton, 
David and his chivalrous son *Prince Henry led the Scots in the 
Battle of The Standard, in which was present *Malise Earl of 
Strathearn. A graphic account of this battle has been given by 
Ailred, Abbot of Riveaux. who shows that in England Prince 
Henry was held in admiration. 

While at Stephen's court, Henry married Ada, youngest 
daughter of the *Earl of Warrene. He died 12 June 1152, before 
coming to the throne, and even the English chroniclers bewail 
him "as though he had been the Chevalier Bayard or Sir Philip 
Sidney of his age." Henry left sons Malcolm b. 1142, William the 
Lion, and *David Earl of Huntington, whose births followed at 
intervals of about a year. 

*King David I. died at Carlisle 24 May 1153, leaving a repu- 
tation for virtue, bravery, and benevolence ; he founded the low- 
land abbeys of Holyrood, IMelrose, Jedburgh, Kelso, Dryburgh, 
and others, centres of letters and civilization, "and brought Scot- 



8 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

land within the circle of European chivalry, manners, trade, and 
education." 

Malcolm IV., son of Prince Henry, was crowned at Scone at 
the age of eleven years. Henry II. of England took advantage 
of his youth by wresting from him Northumberland, a part of his 
grandmother's dowry to her husband. 

The quarrel was, however, temporarily made up, and Malcolm, 
called "The Maiden" on account of his great beauty, later accom- 
panied Henry to Toulouse and was knighted at Tours, winning 
distinction by his bravery. 

He was soon called upon to quell a rebellion of the Celts led 
by Somerled, Earl of Argyl, and Lord of the Isles, and, later, 
others led by the descendants of Lulach, step-son to MacBeath and 
son of his wife Gruach, granddaughter to Kenneth III., who left 
issue to contest the claims of the descendants of *Duncan, grand- 
son of Malcolm II. 

A daughter of Lulach had married Heth, Earl of the turbulent 
province of Moray, and bore him sons Angus and Malcolm. These 
had led an insurrection against David I., when absent in England, 
but, at North Esk, were defeated by the Constable of Scotland 
and Angus slain. Malcolm had carried on a guerilla warfare with 
increasing forces and successes, and David had been forced to call 
to his aid his Norman friends under Walter Espec. Later Malcolm 
was betrayed to David and imprisoned at Roxburgh. It was a 
son of this Malcolm MacHeth by a sister of Somerled who was 
now disturbing the reign of Prince Henry's son, Malcolm IV. 

Galloway subdued and the Celts of The Isles defeated, Mal- 
colm IV. died 1 165, and was succeeded by his brother William. 

William the Lion reigned from 1165 to 1214 — forty-eight 
years. He was a brave and in his early years a warlike Prince, 
but was captured while making an exhibition of rash valor at 
Alnwich, kept captive for many years by Henry II., who only 
released him after exacting his signature to "The Treaty of 
Falaise," which placed Scotland in feudal subjection to England, 
the exactions of which treaty were generously annulled by Richard 
Coeur de Lion. 

The Firebrand of William's reign was Donald Bane, "pre- 
tendant" son of William, son of Duncan, son of *Malcolm Cawn- 
mohr by his Norse wife Ingebiorg, daughter of *Earl Thorfinn. 



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THE FAMILY OF HAY 9 

DonaKl fell in battle near Inverness 1187, and his son was hanged 
in 1212. 

Such Normans as William settled in Northern Scotland were 
succeeded Ijy Celticized descendants. 

William the Lion dietl 4 December 1214, after a long reign 
of great vicissitude, begun by a yoniliful show of rash valor at Aln, 
and terminated by practice of the cool dij)lomacy of age. 

Alexander II., son of William the Lion, succeeded and reigned 
from 1 2 14 to 1249. He joined the English barons in their struggle 
witli King John, who came north and burned Berwick. The acces- 
sion of Henry III. to the English throne ended this war, Alex- 
ander doing homage for his English fiefs. In 1221, Alexander 
married the English princess, Joanna. He soon reduced the Celtic 
province of Argyll to a sherilTdom, which had been in the hands 
of the Campbells of Loch Awe, of the house of MacArthur. He 
left, however, the race of Somerled as chief lords, who were to be 
later won over, as Clan Ranald, to the cause of Bruce, and who 
held the Isles and included Clan Donald, while the mainland of 
Ayr was under Clan Dougal. 

During this reign the claimants having been beheaded, the 
claims of the Mac Williams and the MacHeths to the Scotch crown 
were ended. Joanna having died in 1238 without leaving him an 
heir to the throne, Alexander wedded ^larie de Courci, to whom 
a son was born in 1241. The king died in 1249, at Kerrera. during 
an effort to subdue Argyll and make himself Lord of the Isles. 

He had, in his reign, destroyed the blood of the "pretendants" 
to give place to strife among the great nobles destined to trouble 
his successors. He was succeeded by his son. 

Alexander III. reigned from 1249 to 1286 — about thirty-seven 
years. He was knighted at York, on Christmas Day, 1251, by 
Henry III., and the day following married his daughter, the 
Princess Margaret of England. Then followed a coalition between 
Alan Durward and Walter Comyn, Earl of Mentcith, for custody 
of the royal children, and the government of Scotland, in which 
Henry took part and a regency was established. His minority 
ended in 1263, Alexander contended with Hakon. King of Norway, 
and Magnus, King of Man. for possession of The Isles, which 
were ceded in 1266 by Hakon, excepting Shetland and the Orkneys; 



10 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

but the title of Lord of The Isles remained with the descendants 
of Somerled till the close of the fifteenth century. 

Alexander did much to break the power of the Vikings in 
Scotch v>'aters as allies to the Celts. Edward I. having ascended 
the English throne in 1272, Alexander did him homage for fiefs 
held in English territory, but refused to do homage for his own 
kingdom, which, he said, he held of God. 

In 1 28 1, his daughter Margaret married Eric, King of Nor- 
way, and his eldest son married Margaret of Flanders. Margaret 
of Norway died 1283, giving birth to a daughter, and her brother 
expired without issue. The succession to the throne now rested 
with this infant — The Maid of Norway — to whom it was secured 
by an assembly of the nobles and the estates of Scotland. 

Alexander married again Yolet, daughter of the Count of Dru, 
but met his death one stormy night in 1286, his horse falling over 
a cliff on the Fifeshire coast; he had refused to take shelter from 
the storm, he must reach wife and home that night. 

The storm which caused the death of the King portended for 
Scotland a prolonged period of gloom. On her political horizon 
are gathering lurid clouds, destined to rain blood over her lands 
now fair and smiling with peace, and soon the rising flood shall 
sweep to destruction brave lives and strong castles, leaving desola- 
tion in its wake; while southern blasts will hurl army after army 
of the Anglo-Norman over the border to harry a country weak- 
ened by internecine strife, yet uniting to resist the claims of Eng- 
lish sovereigns whose ambition had persuaded them to regard free 
and independent Scotland as a fief. At the close of this now 
impending struggle, the dispensation of an over-ruling Providence 
will give the stronger kingdom to be governed by a king of the 
weaker northern nation, foreordaining that James VI. of Scotland 
and James I. of England shall be one and the same. 

On the death of Alexander III., Scotland's sovereign was a 
girl, but three years old, in distant Norway. 

Six custodians of the realm were appointed in 1286 to govern 
the kingdom, viz.: Eraser, Bishop of St. Andrews; the Earl of 
Fife; Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan ; John Comyn, Lord of 
Badenoch; Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow; and James the Steward. 

Six months later, at "Turnberry Castle," in Carrick, the fol- 
lowing nobles "banded" to support each other "save against their 



THE FAMILY OI' II AN' ii 

■fealty to the l\iiig of England, and the person who shall obtain the 
Scottish throne being of the blood of Alexander III. and accord- 
ing to the ancient custom of Scotland" : 

Patrick. Karl of Dunbar and his sons; Walter Stewart, Earl 
of Mentcith ; *I>ruce, Earl of Annandale and his son *Robert, Earl 
of Carrick ; James the Steward of Scotland, son-in-law of the Earl 
of Dunbar; Angus Mohr Macdonald of the Isles, and Alexander 
his son; Richard de lUirgh, Earl of Ulster; and Thomas de Clare, 
brother of the Earl of Gloucester, and nephew to the wife of 
Bruce ; this pointed to the later claims of Bruce. 

In 1289 Scotland was on the eve of civil war, which was the 
opportunity of Edward I., who arranged with the Pope and Eric 
of Norway for a marriage between the Prince Edward and The 
Maid of Norway. A treaty of marriage was accepted by Scot- 
land, and the young queen sailed in a Norwegian vessel for the 
Orkneys, where she died in September, 1290. 

John Baliol and his partisans were soon in arms asserting his 
claim to the throne, resisted by the counter claim of *Robert 
Bruce, Earl of Annandale. 

These claims and those of others are contained in the follow- 
ing table: 

♦Prince Henry of Scotland, who died before his father King David I., by his 
wife the Lady Adeline, daughter of William, Earl of Warren and Surrey, 
left three sons: — 

i. Malcolm, who succeeded his father to the throne. 

ii. William the Lion, who succeeded his brother to the throne. 
iii. *David, Earl of Huntingdon in England, who m, Maud, the youngest 
daughter of Ranulpli, Earl of Chester, and had by her a son 
and four daughters : — 
i. John, surnamed "Le Scot," Earl of Chester d. s. p. 
ii. Margaret m. Alan, Lord of Galloway, and had two daughters, 
i. Divorgal m. John of Baliol, and had children, 
i. John, the present claimant to the throne. 

ii. Ada m. Sir William de Lindsay, and had a daughter, Chris- 
tiana, wife of Ingelram, Sire de Courcy. 
ii. Marjory m. John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, descended from 
King Donald Bane ; and had a son. 
i. John, styled "The Ked Comyn." 
iii. *Tsabcl m. Robert de Brus, and had a son. 

i. *Robert, Earl of Annandale, competitor with Baliol. 
-iv. Maud, d. s. 



12 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

V. Ada m. Henry of Hastings, and had a son. 

i. Henry of Hastings, whose son or grandson John, 2d. Bar- 
Hastings was a competitor for the crown. 

Now is made the celebrated protest of the seven earls against 
the conduct of Fraser, Bishop of St. Andrews, and John Comyn, 
who have espoused the cause of Baliol. 

The friends of Bruce, the elder, place themselves under the 
protection of King Edward I., asserting Bruce's claim to the 
throne as grandson of David (Baliol was a great-grandson), and 
also as tlie choice of Alexander H. when childless in 1233, a 
choice ratified by a council of nobles. 

The well-known events now follow where Edward as Lord 
Paramount declares in favor of John Baliol (which would seem 
a fair decision), to become a mere puppet to the English king, 
who probably before rendering a decision had weighed the char- - 
acters of the rivals. 

At length Edward's humiliating demands upon John Baliol 
drove him to the assertion of Scotland's independence. 

Edward led an army against Scotland, and besieged Berwick, 
defended — but in vain — by *William Douglas, a name which be- 
coming prominent for the first time in Scottish history, is destined 
to play an important part, and wield powerful influence, for many 
generations to come. 

In a brief period, Edward, having crossed the border, is mas- 
ter of all the strong castles, and receives the submission of the 
nobles. King John is forced to resign his crown and is imprisoned 
in the Tower of London, but eventually is permitted to retire to 
France to his Norman estates. *Bruce has joined the crowd of 
Anglo-Norman nobles to give in their submission to Edward. 
Proud Scotland lies prostrate at the feet of the greatest of the 
Plantagenets, who, having penetrated as far north as Elgin, in 
1296 retired south from Berwick, leaving Cressingham as Treas- 
urer, Warren Earl of Surrey, Guardian ; and Ormsby, Justiciar of 
Scotland. 

Who now dare stand forth and strike a blow in the cause of 
Scottish rights and liberties ! ! 

"The Wallaces had come north with the Fitz Alans, and the 
younger son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie in Renfrewshire 



Tllb: FAMILY OF IIAY. 13 

was not a man to endure insult, and it is said at Lanark liis wife 
had been killed in a brutal manner by the English." 

A lion was then aroused, and Wallace slew the English slieriff 
Ilazelrig, responding to the call of VVishart and the Steward to 
lead the Celts in an effort to drive out the hated English. It was 
a revolt of "the people." Edward was on the continent and the 
Scots' rising spread. ( )n 11 Sept. 1297, Wallace, at the head of 
40,000 men, fought a liattlc at Stirling Bridge, in which the English 
were defeated with great slaughter, Cressinghani slain, and Warren 
driven to Berwick. 

For the ensuing seven years followed a struggle between Scot- 
land and Edward, in which was much changing of sides by the 
nobles, but throughout it all Sir William Wallace was inflexible. 
In this interval was fought the Battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298. 
Stirling Castle, bravely defended by Sir William Oliphant, fell in 
1304. and Wallace, a fugitive, was finally taken near Glasgow, it is 
said, through the treachery of the second son of Walter Stewart, Sir 
John ]\Ienteith. 

Wallace was beheaded, drawn, and quartered, 23 August, 1305, 
and his limbs exposed at Berwick, New Castle, Stirling, and Perth, 
but his name had been written imperishable in Scotland's history, 
in romance, and in tradition, to shine with undimmed lustre through 
all time to come, as that of an uncompromising martyr to love of 
country and victim to English tyranny. 

*Robert Bruce the Younger held many English estates in pos- 
session, for which he owed fealty to the English sovereign. 

He was, likewise. Lord of .-\nnandale and Earl of Carrick, 
estates that lay in Southwest Scotland. The following tables show 
that flowing in his veins was the blood of a long line of Norman 
ancestors, mingled with tliat of the Gael, the Sa.xon, and the Dane, 
by virtue of descent from Kenneth Macalpin. Aelfred the Great, 
Earl Siwald. and William the Conqueror by ^Matilda of Flanders, 
whose lineage later will be traced to Henry the Great Prince of 
Saxony, and the Emperor Charlemagne. 

I. *Sir Robert de Brus, a noble Norman, accompanied William the 
Conquerer to England and acquired ninety-four lordships in the 
county of York alone. He married as his second wife Agnes 
Anand, a great Scotch heiress, by whom he obtained the Lord- 
ship of Annandale. 



14 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

2. *Robert de Brus, their son, married and left issue: — 

3. *WiIliam de Brus, who married and left a son : — 

4. *Robert de Brus, who married the Lady Isabel, dau. of Prince 

David, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Maud, dau. of Hugh, 
Earl of Chester. David, Earl of Huntingdon, was grandson of 
King Malcolm Cawnmohr and the Saxon Princess Margaret, 
dau. of Aedward the Aetheling, in direct line of descent from 
Aelfred the Great; David was descended from Kenneth Macalpin 
and the Scoto-Celtic kings. They had a son : — 

5. *Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, Contestant for the Crown, 

m. 1st. Isabel, dau. of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; and 
m. 2d. a daughter of the Earl of Carrick, by whom among 
other children a son : — 

6. *Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick, b. 1245, m. Marjorie, dau. Niel, 

Earl of Carrick, A. D. 1271, by whom among other children : — 

7. *Robert the Bruce, Earl of Carrick, who became King Robert I. 

SItttpagf nf Mnuh. mljn marmJi lamb nf ^unttngbon 

1. *Maud, sister of Hugh Lupus, m. Ralph de Meschines, and had a 

son. 

2. *Ranulph de Meschines, Viscount of Bayeux in Normandy, had 

conferred upon him by King Henry I., on the death of his 
cousin Richard de Abrinan, the earldom of Chester — he was also 
Earl of Cumberland and Carlisle — and married Lucia, widow of 
Roger de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, and daughter of Algar, Earl 
of Mercia. 

3. *Ranulph de Meschines, their son, was born in Gernon Castle, 

Normandy, and was Earl of Chester, marrying Maud, daughter 
of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of King Henry I. of England, 
by whom, 

4. *Hugh, Earl of Chester, their son, married Bertrad, daughter of 

Simon, Earl of Evereux in Normandy. 

5. *Maud, their daughter, married David, Earl of Huntingdon; these 

were the great-grandparents of King Robert the Bruce. (It 
will be later shown the lawful ancestor of Colonel Hay.) 

^Robert Bruce, owing fealty to the English sovereigns, had 
rendered important service to Edward I., who had decided ad- 
versely to his father's claims. 

The Scottish clergy were ever hostile to the subordination of 
ecclesiastical Scotland to ecclesiastical England, and during the 
siege of Stirling, a "band" was made between Bruce and Lam- 
berton, Bishop of St. Andrews, looking to Bruce's elevation to the 
throne. 



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In the nicautinic ICdward had organized liis Scottish kingdom, 
appointing his nephew John of Hrittany as Viceroy, and summon- 
ing the Scotch nobles to his parhament. 

A combination was formed in 1306 to place Bruce on the 
throne of Scotlaiul. In its way stood John Comyn, son of the 
contestant, who was unwilling to join the revolt, and — it is said — 
kopt Edward inforuKil in the details of the intrigue. During an 
interview with Bruce in the Church of the Minorite Friars at 
Dumfries, Bruce slew "The Red Comyn," and by this murrlerous 
deed was transformed from the vacillating follower of Edward 
to the, thenceforth, patient and dauntless defender of Scottish 
liberties and his own claims to the crown ; never again to abandon 
the cause he now espoused, but carry it to a triumphant conclusion, 
after enduring trials and in the face of difficulties that might well 
appall the most determined resolution. 

When Edward heard of the murder of Comyn, and that Bruce 
had been crowned at Scone by aid of the Countess of Buchan of 
the traditional house of MacdufT (but not seated on the "Stone of 
Destiny," which had been transported to England), he swore 
vengeance against indomitable Scotland and prepared to return 
once again, and bring to the block the heads of all who had dared 
befriend the cause of liberty. 

Having knighted three hundred young gentlemen at West- 
minster desirous of winning their spurs, he marched north with 
an army to pour out the vials of his wrath upon the devoted heads 
of the irrepressible Scots. 

Robert Bruce now revealed that noble manhood of his nature 
hitherto dormant and unsuspected. His faithful friends, in this 
period of darkness, were James, brother of *Sir W'illiam Douglas, 
who, taken captive at Berwick, had died in an English dungeon ; 
Gilbert Hay, Lord of Erroll ; Thomas Randolph, Lennox, Athol 
(to die on a gibbet), Somerville of Carnwarth, and a brother of 
*Simon Eraser. 

Aymer de \^alence. as forerunner of Edward, had led his 
forces to Perth. Bruce challenged him to come forth to combat. 
"On the morrow," he replied, "I will fight, but not today." 

Accepting this assurance in good faith, the Scots went into 
bivouac, scattering for the day. Aymer sallied forth unexpectedly, 
and, suddenl}- falling upon them, despite the heroic efforts of Bruce 



i6 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

and Seton (lated taken and hanged), Randolph, and many other 
nobles were captured, and the Battle of Methven was lost to 
Bruce. Many cruel executions of the Scotch nobles followed, and 
the patriot Simon Fraser's head was placed beside that of Wallace. 

Then shone resplendent the grand qualities of *Robert Bruce. 
A refugee, his cause desperate, his wife given up to the English 
by the Earl of Ross, his daughter and sister in Edward's power, 
he wanders with a few faithful friends in the wilds of Western 
Scotland, cheering them by reading aloud adventurous tales of the 
knights of the olden time, encouraging them by his personal 
prowess and lion heart, to endure immortal on the Douglas shield. 

With "The Gentle James" and Gilbert Hay for companions, 
he crosses Loch Lomond, and befriended by Angus Og of Isla, 
finally escapes to Rathlin, an island on the Irish coast, where he is 
reanimated to renewed effort by "the spider and his web." 

"From Rathlin Douglas makes a foray on Arran, and Bruce 
soon follows, Douglas and Boyd responding to three blasts of his 
horn. Hence he looks longingly across to his own lands of Car- 
rick, in Percy's hands, sending Cuthbert over to light a beacon if 
all be well." By some strange chance, the beacon is lighted by 
another hand, and Bruce crosses to confront new dangers, from 
which he escapes by his wonderful genius, undaunted courage, and 
great strength and energy. His brothers Thomas and Alexander 
are taken by Dougal Macdowal of Galloway, carried to Edward 
at Carlisle and hanged. Nigel had been already beheaded, and 
the future looked dark and hopeless. 

In Galloway Bruce was soon surrounded on all sides by human 
sleuth-hounds, vying with his own bloodhound to run him down. 
It was now that Douglas, stealing to his own lands, "wrought 
the massacre of 'the Douglas Larder,' " making the reputation of 
"Castle Dangerous," where fair ladies were wont to test the cour- 
age of their suitors. 

A gleam of light shone through the darkness on the lo May 
1307, when — reversing their attitudes at Methven — Bruce won the 
victory of Loudon Hill, where Aymer, having challenged Bruce to 
an open fight, was defeated. Edward, enraged, advanced, but died 
at Burgh-on-Sands, with Scotland full in sight, with his last breath 
bequeathing to his son, as a legacy, the conquest of Bruce and 
Scotland. 



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Through hitter trials ])aticiitly borne, by dauntless courage 
-exhibited in every extremity of peril, excommunicated by the 
Pope, and an object of jealousy to the other Scottish nobles, be- 
leaguered on all sides b\' treacherous friends and open foes, having 
lost three brothers at the block, Bruce is winning the admiration 
and confidence of a large part of Scotland. His success at Loudon, 
the cruelty of the English executions, and the opportune death of 
Edward I. eiieourai^ed tliein (ii)eiily to proclaim allegiance to this 
descentlant nf Havid of 1 liintingdon, of the race of Macalpin. 

Tlie tide hatl turned, and JJrucc has expiated tliat hasty deed 
of sudden passion at Clray I'riars. Like David of old, he had 
sinned ; like David had repented ; and who dare say that, unlike 
David, he was not forgiven by a God. who first ordained, as an 
expiation, so much of hardship and suffering. 

In this sketch, the events in the life of Bruce in his days of 
prosperity must of necessity be touched upon but lightly. Gradually 
the strong places are won back from the English, and their 
defences destroyed to prevent reoccupation by the enemy. Through 
the prowess of Randolph and I^ouglas, bravery of Edward and 
commanding genius of Robert Bruce, the English are at length 
driven from their Scotch strongholds, and Stirling Castle agrees 
to surrender at the end of a year unless rescue is given in that 
period. 

These terms appealing to the chivalrous pride of England to 
send assistance, and to Scotland to prevent it from reaching 
Stirling, led to Bruce's great victory of Bannockburn. in which 
Edward II. and 100.000 of England's best warriors were rolled 
back in bloody defeat. 

On the issue of this battle — nay, on the swing of Bruce's 
battle axe on the eve of the great battle — hung the fate of Scot- 
land. The result welded the disafifectcd, seating Bruce firmly on 
the throne, and the Queen and her husband were no longer as 
"little children playing at being king and queen." 

Bruce's confiscations of those refusing to come into his peace, 
wdiile it enriched his friends, among whom were *Randolph, 
Douglas, *Sir Christopher Seton, Sir Andrew ]\Iurray (son of 
Wallace's comrade and later Regent), the Hays, the *Steward, 
*Sinclairs, *Gordons. * Flemings, and others, yet it created a party 
of disaffected nobles, who in the later reigns of David Bruce, 



i8 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

banded together and espoused the cause of Edward BaHol. Per- 
haps it had been wiser had measures less harsh than confiscation 
been adopted — but such was the pohcy of the age. 

A treaty with Edward HI. was concluded at Northampton, 
4 May 1328, in which was arranged the marriage of David Bruce, 
then five years old, to Joanna, a maid of seven years, the sister of 
King Edward ; of this union there were no surviving children. 

The great *King Robert died in his fifty-fifth year, 7 June 
1329, and his body was buried at Dunfermline under a marble 
tomb brought from Paris. His heart was carried to the Holy- 
land by his friend James Douglas to expiate the death of Comyn, 
and later deposited at Melrose Abbey ; on the passage there or back, 
Douglas was slain by the Saracens in Spain in a chivalrous at- 
tempt to aid in expelling them from that country. 

Bruce had married first the Lady Isabella, daughter of Donald,, 
loth Earl of Marr, and was succeeded by their son David. 

The reign of David II. was begun 1329 and ended Feb. 1370-I, 
when he died in Edinburgh Castle. 

Unlike King Robert I., Robert II., and Robert HI., he was not 
an ancestor of Colonel Hay, and we shall hasten over the events 
of his degenerate reign, presenting only what is required to give 
coherency to this historical recapitulation. 

While yet a child, for safety, he was sent to France, and a 
regency established, administered by Andrew ]\Iurray, by Randolph, 
and the Steward. Then followed an unhappy struggle between 
the national party of Scottish nobles, resisting the party of disin- 
herited nobles banded with Edward Baliol and aided by King 
Edward HI. 

At length, Baliol's adherents quarreling among themselves, 
David, at the age of eighteen years, landed in Scotland to strike 
a blow for possession of his kingdom. He was not wanting in 
personal bravery. 

The Battle of Durham, or Neville's Cross, was fought 17 
Oct. 1346, where the best blood of Scotland was sacrificed. Among 
those who fell thick around their king were Moray, the last male 
heir of Randolph; Hay, the High Constable of Scotland; Keith, 
the Marichal ; Charteris, and thirty others ; March and the Steward 
escaped unhurt, while King David, William Douglas the Knight of 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 19 

Liddesdale, Fife, and Mcntcith were taken and the last cruelly 
executed. 

The capture of David was the culmination of Scotland's mis- 
fortunes ; for his ransom, fixed at 100,000 merks, was to prove a 
grevious burden ui)on his country. While at the English Court a 
prisoner, he practical!)- resigned his kingdom to Edward HI., agree- 
ing to recognize him as feudal lord, and promising to fix the Scot- 
tish succession upon Prince Lionel, should he have no issue. 

While David was in captivity the Steward (later Robert II.) 
was regent, and William Douglas (son of Archibald), returning 
from France, drove the English out of Douglasdale and Ettrick, 
and Copeland, the captor of David, out of Teviotdale ; and a little 
later he slew the Knight of Liddesdale in Ettrick Forest — a deed 
probably justified if the ballad commemorating the event be true. 

During this reign *Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, 
one of Scotland's bravest patriots, had gone to the rescue of "Blach 
Agnes," daughter of Thomas Randolph and wife of Patrick Dun- 
bar, Earl of ]\Iarch, who, in the absence of her husband, was suc- 
cessfully conducting the defence of Dunbar Castle against the 
English under Salisbury. 

"Agnes' love-shafts go straight to the heart," remarked Salis- 
bury as an English knight fell beside him pierced by an arrow sent 
from the castle, while the "chatellaine," in plain view, walked the 
parapet, and with her handkerchief contemptuously "flecked" the 
dust from the spots where fell the English missiles. 

Sir Alexander also stormed Roxburgh Castle, and received 
in reward the Sheriffdom of Teviotdale, formerly held by William 
Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale. The Knight of Liddesdale in 
revenge seized his former friend while holding court, threw him 
across a horse and bore him to "The Castle Hermitage," cast him 
into a dungeon, and starved him to death. It is related that the 
noble prisoner existed seventeen days on grain that sifted through 
cracks in the ceiling overhead — the floor of a room used as a 
granary. 

Perhaps Lord Douglas had this in mind — as well as his private 
quarrel — when he took the life of his kinsman of the same name, 
styled "The Flower of Chivalry." — (Lord William of Douglasdale 
slaying Sir William of Liddesdale.) 



20 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

David was finally permitted to return to Scotland by Edward 
and dispossess Edward Baliol of the crown. The remainder of 
this reign was one of strife among the nobles, border wars and 
efforts to discharge the ransom of the king. In 1 370-1 David died 
in Edinburgh Castle, leaving upon Scotland the burden of about 
45,000 merks indebtedness to England of unpaid ransom. The 
taste of individual power enjoyed by the nobles during David's long 
captivity was destined to linger and give trouble to his successors, 
down to the period of James IV. 

David left no children and was succeeded by his nephew, 
*John Stewart, son of *Marjorie Bruce, by her husband, *Walter 
the Steward. John changed his name to Robert, as Baliol had 
brought the name of John into disrepute. In 1332 Edward Baliol, 
supported by the nobles disinherited by Robert Bruce, taking ad- 
vantage of David's youth and absence from Scotland, had preferred 
his claim to the throne. He began his career with the promise of 
brilliant success, winning against odds the Battle of Duplin, in 
which the Regent *Donald, 12th Earl of Mar, was slain. 

Later, King, he was driven from the throne by David and his 
adherents, and passing into England, ended his days fishing for 
pike, probably deriving more enjoyment from this innocent sport 
than when bearing the weight of a crown and surrounded by turbu- 
lent subjects, all of whom he could not please, and many regarding 
him as an interloper. Yet, by descent, the claims of this royal fish- 
erman to the Scottish crown were superior to those of the Bruce 
and his descendants. 

• The succession to the throne of Scotland had been secured by 
act of Parliament to Robert, son of Marjory Bruce and Walter 
the Steward, whose first and third wives were Alice, daughter of 
Sir John Erskine of Erskine, and Isabella Graham. 

By his marriage with Alice, Walter Stewart had three sons 
and one daughter ; the eldest son, Sir John Stewart of Railston, 
left two sons and three daughters — Marjory, Egidia and Margaret. 
Margaret married, 1388, Sir John Hay of Boyne and Enzie in 
Banff and of Tullibdy in Clack mannan, receiving a dowry of 100 
marks from her uncle. King Robert II. Their daughter, Egidia, 
became the wife of Alexander, Earl of Huntly, the founder of the 
Seton family. (The foregoing information is furnished by Mr. 
George Bain and by The Lord Lyon of Scotland.) 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 21 

*RobcTt H. had many children by *Ehzabcth Mure, whom he 
married in 1349, and after her decease married, second, Euphcme 
Ross. The Earl of Atholl, living in the reign of James I., was 
descended from tlie last marriage, while Robert HI. and almost all 
the crown heads of Europe spring from the first wife. 

Robert gave his daughter Isabel in marriage to James, 2d Earl 
of Douglas, the hero of Otterburne, brother to *George, ist Earl 
of Angus, to whom Robert III. gave his daughter Mary for wife. 
(Ancestors of Colonel Hay.) 

Ascending the throne at middle age, Robert was a lover of 
peace, yet his warlike nobles waged continual border warfare on 
the Marches of the tw'O kingdoms; at one time Richard II., invading 
Scotland in retaliation, advanced into Aberdeenshire. 

On the 14th of August, 1388, was fought by moonlight, near 
Alnwick, the Battle of Otterburne, celebrated in Scotch ballads. 
The Scots were led by James, 2d Earl of Douglas, the King's son- 
in-law. Warden of the eastern jVIarches, who fell in the fight and 
was found dying by James Lindsay, *John Sinclair, and his brother 
Walter. 

"How fares it with you, cousin?" asked John Sinclair. "Ill," 
replied the dying Earl. "Few of my fathers died in their beds; 
raise my banner and cry, 'Douglas!' and tell not where I am to 
friend or foe." 

The Scots rallied to the cry, and although far outnumbered by 
the English, the Percies were taken, and "a dead Douglas won the 
field." 

These border forays were generally in the nature of tournays 
of chivalry, conducted without bitterness, and the prisoners ad- 
mitted to light ransom. If death came, it was the warrior's for- 
tune to go to his last sleep on the battle field, and not in his bed, 
as an old woman. 

The politician of this reign was Robert's second son, the Duke 
of Albany and Earl of Fife, fated to cast the shadow of his in- 
fluence over the succeeding reign. 

Worn by years of responsibility and toil before he came to the 
throne, as Regent of Scotland during the captivity of his uncle in 
England. *Robert II. died in 1390, having reigned twenty years as 
king, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert. 



22 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

The good King Robert HI. began his reign 14 August 1390, 
and died 4 April 1406 — reigning about sixteen years. 

The hereditary tragedies of the Stewart kings were inaugurated 
during this reign in the sad death of Prince David, Duke of Roth- 
esay, the King's eldest born. He was wild and wilful, but brave 
and generous. Mutual jealousy existed between his uncle Albany 
and himself — and strife. The King, having received an injury 
from a horse in early life, was incapacitated from a life of activity, 
and found it necessary to delegate a portion of his royal duties. 
By act of Parliament Rothesay was made "Lieutenant of Scot- 
land" for three years, and at the end of that period, for some 
prank, his father was persuaded by Albany to place him in tem- 
porary restraint. He was arrested on the St. Andrews Links, 
warded in the Bishop's Castle, hurried to Falkland in a storm, and 
there mysteriously met his death, as related in "The Fair Maid of 
Perth." 

Albany stands accused by historians for the murder of his 
nephew, but while circumstantial evidence points strongly to his 
guilt, yet direct proof is wanting. 

Not long after this the King's second son, James, was sent to 
France — perhaps his father was afraid of ambitious Albany — but 
on the way was taken prisoner by England, Scott says in time of 
truce between the nations. 

The double blow broke King Robert's heart, who, on the 4th 
of April, 1406, was removed by death from evils which he was 
not strong enough to control, and amid which he was too good to 
dwell in happiness. 

During this reign, in 1396, occurred the celebrated clan fight 
of thirty against thirty, an account of which is given later in this 
work. Also Elgin Cathedral was burned by Alexander Stewart, 
"The Wolf of Badenoch" — the King's mad half-brother. He was 
the father of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, who, in 1408, com- 
manded the lowland nobles at the Battle of Harlaw, where the 
hordes of Highlanders, under Donald of The Isles, were halted in 
an attempt to sack Aberdeen and overrun the lowlands; this may 
be accepted as atonement by the son for the father's act in 1398. 

In the border wars of Robert's reign, the Earl of Northumber- 
land and Hotspur won the battle at Nisbet Moor in the Merse, 
followed a few days later by Homildon Hill, where Douglas and 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 23 

Murdoch, Albany's son, were defeated with great slaughter while 
leading an army of 10,000 men, who were victims to England's 
crossbows. 

In this border battle the chivalrous *Sir Adam Gordon seeing 
Sir John Swinton, with whom he was at deadly feud, about to lead 
a hopeless charge with a handful of cavalry, in admiration for his 
valor bogged to be reconciled aiul to receive from his hand the 
accolade of Knighthood, and rode with him to death. 

The Percies, wardens of the Marches, were victors, but in- 
censed because forbidden by Henry IV. to ransom their prisoners, 
after tlie custom of border warfare, they rebelled. Not long after, 
at the Battle of Shrewsbury, in which Prince Henry, Percy and 
Douglas had displayed heroic valor, Hotspur was slain and Douglas 
taken captive. 

Having traced the history of Scotland from Colonel Hay's 
first royal ancestor to his last — from *Fergus the Dalriad, who 
came over to Cantyre in 503, to *Robert III., who died in 1406, 
covering a period of nine hundred years — this historical review is 
brought to a close. 

It will now be shown how the names marked in the First Part 
with an asterisk are the names of progenitors of Colonel Ann 
Hawkes H.iy, and his descent will be brought down from William de 
Haya, who accompanied Duke William of Normandy to England 
in 1066. 



PART II 

JfirHt (feneration 



Ukhm^iSUjmi 



IILLIAM DE LA HAY is mentioned in local his- 
^^TT T^ tory as having been cup-bearer to Malcolm IV. and 
^ V A/ ^ William the Lion, whose reigns extended over the 
^ ^ period 1153 to 1214 — sixty-one years. 

^^^^^M^§ He married Julianne de Soulis, daughter of 

Ranulph (Randolph) de Soulis, Lord of Liddes- 
dale and Castle Hermitage. It is probable that Ranulph was de- 
scended from Count de Seulis, maternal uncle of Richard the Fear- 
less, Duke of Normandy, great-grandfather of William the Con- 
queror. 

The origin of the ennobling of the family of Hay is thus told 
by Boethius and other early historians of Scotland. 

The tradition is taken from "A Genealogical Deduction of the 
Family of Kilravock or Rose — written by Mr. Hew Rose, Minister 
of Nairne 1683, and completed by the Rev. Lachlan Shaw, Min- 
ister of Elgin in 1753, with Illustrative Documents from the Fam- 
ily Charter Room," printed under the auspices of "The Spalding 
Club of Aberdeen" in 1848, at a time when its president was the 
Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. ; and vice-presidents, the Duke of Rich- 
mond, K. G. ; Duke of Sutherland, K. G. ; Earl of Airlie ; Earl of 
Seafield ; Lord Saltoun, etc. 

"I doubte not that the original! and antiquitie of this familie is as 
clearly demonstrable from undoubted historie as anie in the nation; for all 
of our histiographers write of the Battel! of Loncartie, and never write of 
that without giving the original! of the famiiie. 

Anno 984, or therabout, and in the reigne of Kenneth III, the Danes 
invade Scotland; the Scots fight them at Loncartie (not far from Perth) 
and are put to flight. But a countrie man named HAY with his two sons 
being at their labour in the field, did with the yoaks of their oxen stop the 
flying Scots at a narrow passage, forcing them not only to return upon 

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THE I'AAllLV Ui' HAY 



25 



the Danes, but also entering with their homilic weapons amongst the thickest 
of the enemies. By their valour and encouraging example tlie Danes were 
put to flight and Scotland preserved from slaverie. 

In reward of such signallie good service, the King giving him several 
options, he accepted of what lands a falcon Icttcn flic, should fly over be- 
fore she alighted, whicli were the lands of Erroll and others very con- 
siderable, which were enjoyed by his descendants, till sold off in the min- 
oritie of Gilbert, late Earl of Erroll, having continued in the familie near 
seven liundred years." The account continues: — "The first HAY may 
match any of the heroes. After his glorious achievement, when King and 
subjects heaped praises upon him deservedly, he was not elated but carried 
moderately and soberlie, refusing to be gorgeously attired, but marching 
with his sons bearing their yoaks befoure the King to St. Johnstoune. His 
courage, his modest composednes after so much glorie, show that he was 
probably noblie descended. I am sure they prouve he was of noble spirit, 
as fitt stem for such a brave descent who have frequentlie been pillars of 
their prince and native countrie. Of this noble familie was that Sir Gilbert 
Hay who when King Robert Bruce was at tlic lowest, and the whole nation, 
yet never deserted the person of his king in all his fortunes, attending him 
in his lurking places when not owned by anic, still waiting for opportunie to 
act for his oppressed prince and countrie then appearing to breathe their last. 

So that if Alexander the Great could say of his friends that Clytus loved 
the King, and Hephistion Alexander, it may be trulie said that this noble 
gentleman was to King Robert Bruce both Hephistion and Clytus. 

This Sir Gilbert Hay (as he well deserved) was created, by Robert 
Bruce, Lord High Constable of Scotland, which office was not only honour- 
able but of eminent authoritie and advantage whilst our kings resided in 
Scotland, and is yet a very great jurisdiction while Parliament is sitting; 
besydes that tlierebye the Earls of Erroll are still counsellors as it were by 
birthright, without particular commissions. To this Sir Gilbert, King 
Robert gave the half of the whole estate belonging to the Earl of Buchan, 
of the surname of Cuming, which was great, and makes now a considerable 
part of the patromonie of the familie of Erroll. 

Wiliam, Lord Hay, Constable of Scotland, with his whole kindred and 
the Southern nobilitie (through the contrivance of Andrew Murray of Tulli- 
bardin) were cut off at Duplin 1332, and at that time the whole name of 
Hay had been extinct, if the said Wiliam and other kinsmen's wives had not 
given posthumous birth to boys who restored the race." 

The following account of the origin of the name is attribtited 
by James Taylor, M. A., D. D., F. S. A., author of "The Great 
Historic Families of Scotland," to Mr. Hay Allan, who rests it upon 
the authority of a manuscript "History of the Hays": — 

"MacGaradh is the ancient name of the Hays. It is of genuine Gaelic 
origin, and was given first to the family in allusion to the celebrated action 



26 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

by which the first Hay raised himself from obscurity. It is very expressive 
of the circumstances. Its literal signification is a dyke, or barrier, and 
was given to the ancestor of the Hays for his conduct at the Battle of 
Luncarty, where he stood between the fleeing Scots and the victorious 
Danes like a wall of defence. 

"Surnames did not come into use in England until the time of the 
Conqueror, and into Scotland a little subsequently. That of Garadh was 
given to the ancestor of the Hays about one hundred and fifty years before 
this, and had not been retained by his descendants as an individual designa- 
tion, but as the name of the whole race, as Clann na Garadh, and par- 
ticularly as the patronymic of the chief who was designated Mac Mhic 
Garadh Mor an Sgithan Deang, the son of the son of Garadh of the red 
shields. ****** In the reign of Mac Beath there were two 
brothers of the direct descendants of Garadh, and during the trouble of 
that tyrant's usurpation, the younger, 'being right bauld and stalwart of 
heart,' went into Normandy, where he married the daughter and heiress of 
one of the barons of the dukedom. ****** jjg assumed 
the name of De la Haye, which is a sufficiently literal translation of Garadh, 
the first signifying hedge or fence, the latter dyke or barrier. 

"In the reign of Malcolm Bean Mor, the son of the first De la Haye, 
was one of the warriors who accompanied William of Normandy into 
England. Some time after the Conquest, he made a journey into Scotland 
to visit his uncle, the chief of the Clan na Garadh, then grown to an ad- 
vanced age and without children. During his visit the old chief died, and 
there being no other heir, De la Haye was declared his successor, residing 
in Scotland. The name became hereditary to the descendants of Garadh 
and the old appelation dropped into oblivion." 

Sir Lewis John Erroll Hay, Bart., sent the writer the follow- 
ing verses, commenting as follows :— t 

"Copied out of an odd leaf pasted in an old MS. history 
of the Hays. It is composed in imitation of a Highland Pibroch. 
The two long stanzas of 'The Gathering' are said to be of consid- 
erable antiquity. Of the first there is a version in Gaelic. The 
second is not older than 1646, for Hay of Yester did not receive 
the title of Tweeddale until that period. The rest of 'The Gather- 
ing' is said to have been written by Captain James Hay in 171 5." 
The slogan of the Hays was "Hollen MacGaradh." 

The Gathering of The Hays. 
"MacGaradh, MacGaradh, red race of the Tay, 
Ho gather! Ho gather! like hawks to the prey; 
MacGaradh, MacGaradh, MacGaradh come fast, 
The flame's on the beacon, the horn's on the blast, 
The standard of Erroll unfurls its white breast 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 

And the Falcon of Luncartie stirs in her nest; 
Come away, come away, come to the tryst I 
Come in, MacGaradh, from cast and from west. 
MacGaradh, MacGaradh, MacGaradh, come forth, 
Come from your bowers from south and from north, 
Come in all Gowrie, Kinnoul, and Tweeddale, 
Druniclyior and Naughton, come locked in your mail; 
Come Stuart! Come Stuart! set up your white rose, 
Killour and Buccleugh, bring your bills and your bows; 
Come in, MacGaradh, come armed for the fray, 
For wide is the war-cry, and dark is the day. 

Quick March. 
"The Hay, the Hay, the Hay, the Hay! 
MacGaradh is coming, give way, give way. 
The Hay, the Hay, the Hay, the Hay! 
MacGaradh is coming, hurra ! 
MacGaradh is coming like beam of war, 
The blood-red shields are glinting far. 
The Stuart is up, his banner white, 
Is flung to the breeze like flash of light; 
Dark as the mountain's heather wave 
The 'Rose' and the 'Misle' are coming brave, 
Bright as tlie sun which gilds its thread 
King James's tartan is flashing red, — 
Upon them, MacGaradh ! bil^ and- bow ! 
Cry, HoUcn MacGaradh, Hollen, HollenT 

\ Charge. 

"MacGaradh is coming like stream from the hill, 
MacGaradh is coming lance, claymore, and bill; 
Like thunder's wild rattle is mingled the battle 
With cry of the falling, and shout of the charge — 
The lances are flashing, the claymores are clashing. 
And ringing the arrows on buckler and targe. 

Battle. 
"MacGaradh is coming, the banners are shaking. 
The war tide is turning, the phalanx is breaking. 
The Southrons are flying, 'St. George!' vainly crying, 
And Brunswick's white horse on the field is borne down, 
The red Cross is shattered, the red roses scattered. 
And bloody and torn, the white plume in its crown. 

Pursuit. 
"Far shows the dark field like the streams of Cairn Gorm, 
Wild, broken, and red in the skirt of the storm — 
Give the spur to the steed, give the war-cry, it's 'Hollen,' 
Cast loose to wild speed, shake the bridle and follen, 
The rout's in the battle like blast in the cloud. 



28 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

The flight's mingled rattle peals thickly and loud, 
Then 'Hollen, MacGaradh !' 'Hollen, MacGaradh!' 
'Hollen-Hollen-Hollen, MacGaradh !' " 

Hay and his two sons who arrested the fleeing Scots at Lon- 
carty have been immortahzed by Shakespeare in the drama of 
"Cymbehne," where they are introduced as BelHsarius, a banished 
lord in disguise, and Guiderius and Arviragus, supposed to be sons 
of Bellisarius, but really the sons of King Cymbeline. 

The battle is lost, the Britons (Scots) are fleeing, when enter 
Bellisarius and his sons : — 

Bellisarius — "Stand, stand ! We have the advantage 

Of the ground ; 

The lane is guarded ; nothing routs us 

But the villainy of our fears. 
Guiderius — 
Arviragus — Stand, stand ! And fight ! 

Posthumus relates as follows what then took place: — 

Posthumus — "The army broken 

And but the backs of Scots seen, all flying 
Through a straight lane ; the enemy full hearted 
Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work 
More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down 
Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling 
Merely through fear ; that the straight pass was damm'd 
With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living 
To die with lengthen'd shame — 

Lord — Where was this lane? 

Post. — Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf; 

Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier — 
An honest one I warrant ; who deserv'd 
So long a breeding as his white beard came to, 
In doing this for's country. Athwart the lane 
He, with two striplings — lads more like to run 
The country base than to commit such slaughter; 
With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer 
Than those for preservation cas'd, or shame — 
Made good the passage; cried to those that fled; 
'Our (Scotland's) harts die flying, not our men: 
To darkness ! fleet souls that flie backwards. 
Stand! or we are (Danes), and will give you that 
Like beasts that you shun beastly, and may save 
But to look back in frown — Stand ! Stand !' 
These three, three thousand confident, in act as many — 



THE FAMILY OF HAY. 29 

For three performers are the file when all the rest do 

Nothing, — with this word 'Stand, stand,' 

Accommodated by the place, more cliarming 

With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd 

A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks. 

Part shame, part spirit rcnew'd ; that some tiirn'd coward 

Bnt by example, — O, a sin in war, damm'd in the first 

Beginners! — 'gan to look the way they did. 

And grin like lions upon the pikes of hunters. Then began 

A stop i' the chaser, a retire ; anon 

A rout, confusion thick : forthwith they fly 

Chichens, the way which they stoop'd eagles ; slaves 

The strides they victors made : and now our cowards 

Like fragments in hard voyages, became 

The life o' tlie need ; having found the back door open 

Of the unguarded hearts, heavens! how they wound! 

Some slain before, some dying, some their friends 

O'er-borne i' the former wave : ten chas'd by one 

Are now each one the slaughter man of twenty : 

Those that would die or ere resist are grown 

The mortal bugs of the field. 

Xord — This was strange chance: 

A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys ? 

Post. — Nay, do not wonder at it : you have made 

Rather to wonder at the things you hear 
Than to work any; will you rhyme upon't 
And vent it for a mockery? here is one: 
"Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane 
Preserv'd the (Scots) and was the (Danish) bane." 

(Note: — In the above extract, "Scot" and "Dane" have been 
substituted for "Briton" and "Roman" — restitution for Shake- 
-speare's robbery.) 

The name in Scotland now emerges from the mists of tradi- 
tion and enters a period illuminated by the light of historical re- 
search. Mr. Taylor in his book, "The Great Historic Families of 
Scotland," says : — 

"The Hays are a branch of the Norman family of de Haya. * ♦ * * 
♦ * * * Their armorial bearings are the same as those borne by the 
families of the name in Italy, France, and England. A Sieur de la Haya 
accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. A William de la 
Haya, who married the daughter of Ranulph de Soulis, Lord of Liddesdale, 
was cup-bearer to Malcolm IV., about the middle of the twelfth century, 
and to his brother William the Lion, who bestowed on h'm the lands of 
Erroll." 



30 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

This William de la Haya was, no doubt, the son or grandson 
of the Sieur de la Haya, who came to England with Duke William, 
who had found his way to Scotland, the land of his ancestors, as 
told by Mr. Hay Allan. He died in the year 1170, and left by his 
wife Julianne de Soulis the following three sons : — 

i. SIR WILLIAM DE LA HAY, LORD OF ERROLL, whose 

history follows. 

ii. Robert de Hay, from whom descend the seven Lords of Yester, 
created 1488, the title then changing 1646 to Earl of Tweeddale, 
and in 1694 changed to that of Marquis of Tweeddale. 

iii. Peter de la Hay, living in 1196. 



^econb (feneration 




|IR WILLIAM DE LA HAY, LORD OF ERROLL, 
was the eldest son of William de la Hay, the Cup- 
bearer. He was living in 1160. 

He was a courtier of William the Lion, and 
became one of the hostages for payment of his 
ransom. He went on a special mission to King 
John of England, and returned with King William to the north. 
Mr. Bain writes in his "History of Nairnshire": — 
"Amongst the great nobles at the court when King William 
was in Moray was William de Hay. He is a signatory to some 
five different charters granted by the King and recorded in the 
Chartulary of Moray. The King had in his gift the lands of 
Auldearn, and it is extremely probable that the Sir William de la 
Hay so frequently mentioned in the charters of the period received 
the grant of the lands of Lochloy at this time, in addition to his 
possessions elsewdiere." 

He died in 1199, and left issue by his spouse Eva de Petenalin, 
a wealthy heiress, the following six children : — 



1. 

ii. 

V. 
V. 

vi. 



Sir David de la Hay, of whom later. 

William de la Hay. 

John de la Hay, from whom descend the Hays of Naughton. 

Thomas de la Hay. 

Robert de la Hay. 

Nicholas de la Hay, 




Cfjirli ^tntxation 



|IR DAVID DE LA HAY, LORD OF ERROLL^ 

S^ was the eldest son of Sir William de la Hay by his 
^ wife Eva de Petenalin. In 1188-99, he had charters 
^ ^ to hold the Lands of Erroll "as freely as his father 

^^^^^ had held them." He married Helen, daughter of Gil- 
bert, 3d Earl of Strathearn, by his wife, the Count- 
ess Matilda, daughter of William D'Aubigny, Earl of Albemarle. 

Earl&om of iS'tratlyrarn 

1. Malisius, Earl of Strathearn, testibus in the foundation charter 

of the monastary of Scone by King Alexander I., anno 11 15; 
was at the battle of the Standard, anno 1138. 

2. Ferquhard, second earl, was at Perth with Malcolm IV. (Fordun,. 

vol. i, p. 1153, 450). He left two sons: Gilbert; and Malise,. 
who is designed in the foundation charter of Inchafifray "Frater 
Gilbert!, Comites de Strathearn," anno 1198. 

3. Gilbert, third earl, married Maude or Matilda, daughter of Wil- 

liam D'Aubigny, Earl of Albemarle, and had five sons and twa 
daughters : — i. Gilbert d.s.p. ; ii. William d.s.p. ; iii. Ferqu- 
hard d.s.p. ; iv. Robert, who became the heir ; v. Fergus, 
"frater Domini Roberti, Comites de Strathearn" ; vi. Christian^ 
married Sir Walter Oliphant; vii. Helen, married David de 
la Hay, Lord of Erroll. 

4. Robert, 4th earl, witness to the charter of the whole earldom of 

Fife granted by Alexander H. to Malcolm, son of Earl Duncan. 
He d. ante 1244, leaving a son Malise, and three daughters : 
Annabella, m. to Sir David Graham ; Matilda, m. Malcolm^ 
Earl of Fife ; Lucia, m. Sir William Sinclair of Roslin. 

5. Malise, sth earl, one of the guarantees of the truce in 1224 with 

England, m. Mary, daughter of Eugene of Ergada, relict of 
the King of Man. "Malisius Comes of Strathearn, viduam regis 
Mannise, filium Eugenii de Ergadia uxorem duxit," etc. — Fordun 
v. ii., p. 109. 

He died anno 1271, and was buried at Dunblane, and was suc- 
ceeded by Malise, his son. 

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THE FAMILY OF HAY 33 

6. Maliso, Gtli carl, agrcL-d to tlio inarriaKc of the Princess Margaret, 

daughter of Alexander III,, uilli Eric of Norway A.D. 1281. 
And to the marriage of her daughter, the Maiden Queen, with 
Prince Edward of England in 1290. lie was one of Bruce's 
chosen arbiters in I2y2. lie m. Egidia, dau. of Alexander 
Cumyn, 2d Earl of Buchan, and left by her Malisc his heir, and 
Mary m. to Sir John Murray of Drumsargard, whose son after- 
ward became Earl of Strathcarn. 

7. Malise, 7th earl, was an adherent of Robert Bruce. He signed 

the letter to the Pope in 1320, asserting the independence of 
Scotland. He appears to have been three times married, but 
left no male heir. His first wife, mother of the Countess Jo- 
hanna, was the daughter of Sir John Mentcith. 

His second wife, Marjorie, was daughter of "Robert do 
Muschamp." 

His third wife, according to Sir James Balfour, was Matilda, 
daughter and heiress of Magnus, Earl of Orkney and Caithness, 
by whom he had four daughters — of whom the first m. William, 
Earl of Ross, who had A.D. 1344, from Malise, a gift of the 
earldom of Caithness ; but this was not confirmed by David 
II. until 1362. Isabel, the second sister, m. Sir William Sinclair 
of Roslin. The third, "Matilda de Stratheren," m. Hugh of 
Arthe, and was mother of Alexander of Arthe. The fourth 
m. Reginald Cheyne, and was mother of Mariot Cheyne. These 
four daughters of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, inherited the 
earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, in right of their mother, 
daughter and heiress of Earl Magnus, untouched by their 
father's forfeiture. 

Sir Robert Gordon says : — "Malisius, Earl of Caithness, 
Orkney and Strathearn, gave the earldom of Caithness to Wil- 
liam, Earl of Ross, in marriage with his daughter Isabel, which 
was not conlirmed by Robert II. until 1362; Malise himself being 
attainted in 1343 by King David for giving the title of "Earl of 
Strathearn" to David's enemy, the Earl of Warrenne, who m. 
Johanna, Malise's daughter. It must have been Johanna's 
mother, and not -herself, who was implicated in the plot again 
against King Robert and condemned to perpetual imprison- 
ment, anno 1320. — Fordun vol. ii., p. 274. 

Mariot Cheyne had a fourth part of the earldom of Caithness, 
on her own resignation, and a charter of half the barony of 
Strabrock, as wife of the deceased John Douglas. 

Alexander of Arth, representative of the Earls of Strathearn, 
inherited and resigned the earldom of Caithness to Robert II. 

The Earldom of Strathearn, on the forfeiture of Malise, 7th 
earl, was conferred on his nephew Sir Maurice Moray, eldest 
son of Mary, his sister, m. to Sir John Moray of Drumsargard, 



34 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Lord of Clydesdale, who had joined the Steward at the siege 
of Perth in 1339, and had many charters from David II., and 
the ward of Walter Cumyn of Rowallan. 
8. Mauritius, Comes de Strathearn by charter from David II., accom- 
panied King David into England, and was killed at the Battle 
of Durham in 1346, and having no issue, the earldom, which 
was left to him and his heirs male, returned to the Crown, 
he being succeeded in his other estates by his younger brother. 
Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairney. It remained in the 
Crown until it was erected into a County Palatine by King 
Robert II. in favor of his eldest son David, Rothesay, by his 
marriage to Eufame, dau. of Hugh, Earl of Ross. 
g. Prince David thus became Earl of Strathearn. He left an only 
child, the Lady Euphemia, designed "Comitessa Palitina de 
Strathearn," who m. Sir Patrick Graham, Lord of Kincardine 
and Dunduff. 

Sir James Dalrymple says: — "In the Chartulary of Inchaffray, 
Insula Missasarum, are many particulars concerning the Earls 
of Strathearn which have escaped genealogists." — Mrs. Cur^g 
ming Bruce, pp. 551-554- 

It has been seen that the monastary of Inchaffray was founded 
by Gilbert, 3d Earl of Strathearn, and his Countess Matilda, 
whose parentage is shown by the following extract from the 
charter: — "Ego Gilbertus, filius Ferquhardi, Comites de Strath- 
earn, et Ego, Matilda, filia Willelmus D'Aubigny," etc. 

Sir David de la Hay by his wife Helen, dau. of Gilbert, 3d 
Earl of Strathearn, and his Countess Matilda D'Aubigny, had 
sons : — 

i. Gilbert de la Hay, Lord of Erroll (vide immediately 

below). 
ii. Sir William de la Hay of Leys; his history follows 
presently in Section IV. 




Jfourtfj (feneration 



ilR WILLIAM DE LA HAY OF LEYS was the 
second son of David de la Hay, Lord of Erroll, by 
his wife Helen, youngest daughter of Gilbert, 3d 
Earl of Strathearn, by his countess Matilda, daugh- 
ter of William D'Aubigny, Earl of Albemarle. 
(Vide Burke and also "The Bruces and the Cumyns" p. 
552, and Hist. Nairn.) 

"When the crisis arises in regard to the succession to the Scot- 
tish throne, William de la Hay exhibits his seal to the 'Letter of the 
Community of Scotland,' 1289. During the time the Guardians of 
Scotland administered the affairs of the nation, his son Sir John 
figures in the history of the period. When the claims of Bruce and 
Baliol were submitted to Edward, Bruce nominated William de la 
Hay as one of his Commissioners, and Dr. Taylor in his 'History of 
Edward I., in the North of Scotland,' states that this WiUiam de la 
Hay was the representative of the family of Hay of Lochloy in 
the County of Nairne. 

"In support of Robert Bruce the Elder, he joined the Scottish 
nobles at Dunbar, and was taken prisoner and sent to the Castle of 
Berkhampstead. He was soon liberated, however, and swore fealty 
to Edward, 28 August 1296, and came north with him. He was 
then appointed Sheriff of Inverness, and in that capacity he received 
the oaths of fealty of the principal officers in the North, amongst 
others that of William de Monte Alto, Sheriff of Dingwall. 

"Sir William dc la Hay was also appointed Warden of Ross, 
and was practically Governor of the North. So valiant a knight was 
too valuable an officer to be left in civil employment, and Edward 
summoned him to accompany him on an expedition to Flanders. 
He responded, and the payments made him for services in Flanders 
are recorded in the Exchequer Rolls. His son joined the patriotic 
party and adhered to Bruce and in 1304 one Oliver Avenal 

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36 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

petitioned Edward to give him the lands of John de le Hay in the 
County of Inverness, promised him in the late war. After the War 
of Independence, the Hays were reinstated in their lands in Inver- 
ness and Nairn." — Mr. Bain in Hist. Nairn, pp. 206-07. ^^ had 
two sons mentioned in contemporary history: — 

i. A son from whom descend Hay of Leys, ancestor to the Earls of 
Kinnoul created 1633, the two James Earls of Carlisle created 
Lord Sauley 1615, who m. Lucy Percy, dau. of the Earl of 
Northumberland, and many other Hays distinguished in the 
history of Scotland and England. 

ii. Sir John de la Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, whose history is given 
in Section V. 









Jftftf) feneration 



|1R JOHN DE LA HAY was the son of Sir William 
de la Hay of Leys. He adhered to the cause of 
Robert Bruce and mention is made in "The History 
of Nairnshire" that Edward I. was petitioned by 
Oliver Avenal to bestow upon him the promised 
lands of Sir John Hay. These lands were after- 
ward restored by King Robert the Bruce to the family. He is a 
witness to a charter of Alexander of Moravia. He married the 
daughter and heiress of Sir Andrew Eraser of Touch and Tulli- 
body, who in 1296 was Sheriff of Stirling. 

3FraHrr 

The Frasers, like most of the other great Scottish houses, were of Nor- 
man descent. Their original designation was Frisscll, which occurs in the 
roll of Battle Abbey, and is still given to them in various parts of the 
country. 

It is said their ancestor came to Scotland in the reign of Charlemagne 
along with the French ambassadors that monarch is reputed to have sent 
over to form a league with King Achaius. 

In reality the first of the name settled in Scotland in the reign of Mal- 
colm Cawnmohr, and appears to have obtained from that monarch a grant 
of the lands of East Lothian. In the reign of David I., Sir Simon Fraser 
possessed half of the lands of Keith, called from him Keith Simon. Hervey, 
the ancestor of the Keiths, Earls Mareschal, who married Simon's grand- 
daughter, was proprietor of the other half, named from him Keith Hervey. 

1. Another member of the family, Sir Gilbert Fraser, obtained the 

lands of North Hailes, and also a large estate in Tweeddale. 
Oliver Castle, a celebrated stronghold of the Frasers, was built 
by his oldest son Oliver Fraser. 

2. Sir Andrew Fraser, 2d son of Sir Gilbert Fraser, and uncle of Sir 

Simon, became, on the death of the patriot, the male representa- 
tive of the Fraser family. 

He possessed the lands of Touch in Stirlingshire, and of 
Stuthers in Fife, afterward -the property of the Lindsays, Earls 
of Crawford. "He was," says Anderson, "the historian of the 

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38 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

family, the first of the name of Fraser who established an in- 
terest for himself and descendants in the northern parts of 
Scotland, and more especially in Inverness-shire, where they 
have ever since figured with such renown and distinction." 
3. A daughter of the foregoing Sir Andrew, who was her father's 
heiress, m. Sir John de la Hay, and it will be seen later that 
the property of "Touch" acquired by this marriage is trans- 
mitted to Sir Alexander Seton of Touch, one of the descend- 
ants of this pair. 

Sir John de la Hay, by his spouse Miss Fraser, the heiress 
of Touch and Tullibody, had a son : — (The Bruces and the 
Cumyns.) 

i. John de la Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, whose history 
follows. 



feixtli ^fncration 




?"^'fw^''^i?^i'Sf'^'"?i?^?^ 



IR JOHN DE LA HAY, LORD OF THOLY- 
BOTHIL in 1369, and in liis mother's riglit, pos- 
sessed of the lands of Touch and Tullibody, was the 
son of Sir John de la Hay by his wife Miss Fraser, 
daughter of Sir Andrew Fraser of Inverness-shirc. 
"In 1350 he granted lands in Nairn and Suther- 
land, and StrathpefTer in Ross, to his brother-in-law, Thomas Sin- 
clair, with his sister Euphemia; and in 1374 mortifies an annuity 
out of the lands of Lochloy and Raits to the chapel of St. Mary at 
Kinraize, with consent of John, his son and heir." — The Bruces and 
Cumyns. 

The following extract from the "History of Nairnshire," by 
Mr. George Bain, evidently refers to this grant : — 

"In 1364, John de la Hay, Lord of Tullibothil, was Sheriff of Inverness 
and with consent of his son John granted out of his lands of Lochloy and 
Wester Raite an endowment for the chapel of Kincraggie. He also pos- 
sessed the lands of Awn (the Enzie) and others. 

Mention is made of David II., having given in 1362, a grant of all the 
lands lying between the Spey and the rivulet called the Tynot in the Forest 
of Awne to John de la Hay of Lochloy and Tullibothil, for the purpose of 
being cultivated. Out of these lands in 1374 he gave a donation of four 
pounds for the support of a chaplain in the chapel of Geth." 

Sir John Hay of Tholybothil married in 1364, Christian Keith, 
daughter of Sir William de Keith, Great Mareschal of Scotland, by 
his spouse Marjorie Comyn, 3d daughter of William Comyn, ist 
Earl of Buchan, Great Justiciar of Scotland 1209. (Mrs. Gum- 
ming Bruce and Mr. Bain.) 

The family of Keith descend tradilionally from Robert, leader of the 
Catti, who emigrated from Germany in the reign of Malcolm II. and gained 
a signal victory over the Danes in loio, in which he slew their leader 
"Canus." 



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40 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

King Malcolm dipped his finger in the blood of the dead general, and 
drew three strokes on the upper part of Robert's shield, which his descend- 
ants bear on their arms in pale, and created him "Hereditable Great 
Mareschal of Scotland." (This is probably mythical.) 

1. Warin de Keith, descended from Robert, was Great Mareschal of 

Scotland. 

2. Hervius de Keith, son and heir, was living in time David I. 

3. Hervius de Keith, son and heir, died in 1196. 

4. Malcolm de Keith, son and heir. Great Mareschal, living 1183. 

5. Philip de Keith, son and heir, married Eda, daughter of Hugh 

Laurens by his wife, Eda, daughter and heiress of Simon 
Eraser, and died about 1220. 

6. Hervius de Keith, Great Mareschal, son and heir, died 1242-50. 

7. Sir John de Keith, Great Mareschal, son and heir, married Mar- 

jorie, youngest daughter of William Cumyn, b. 1163, Great 
Justiciar of Scotland in 1209, Eirst Earl of Buchan in right of 
his 2d wife Marjorie, Countess of Buchan — William Cumyn's 
first wife was Matilda Urquhart, daughter of Banquo, from 
which marriage sprang the House of Badenoch, one of whom 
was John the Red Comyn. 

By his second marriage William Cumyn, Earl of Buchan, had 
Marjorie, who, we have seen, married Sir John de Keith. 

8. Sir William de Keith, Great Mareschal, son and heir, married 

Barbara, daughter of Sechar or Sirlo de Seton, and d. anent 
1290. 

9. Christian de Keith, daughter of Sir William de Keith by his wife 

Barbara, married 1364, Sir John de la Hay, Lord of Tholybothil. 

Hilt? nf Qlnmgtt 

(De Comin, Comyn, Cumine, Cominge, Gumming) 
I. John, Count de Comyn and Baron de Tonsberg, Normandy, was 
the son of Baldwin, founder of the House of Blois, the son of 
Baldwin, son of Godfrey, a distinguished soldier of the cross, 
grandson of Charles, Due d'Ingeheim, fifth son of the Emperor 
Charlemagne. 

(Vide Burke's Extinct Peerage on Moreton or De Burge, 
Earl of Cornwall A.D. 1068; also vide "The Bruces and the 
Cummings," pp. 391-401, from which most of the following is 
taken.) 

John had two sons : — Eustace of whom presently ; and Har- 
lowen de Burg, founder of the Abbey of Grestein in Normandy, 
died vit. pat. having married Arlotta, mother of William the 
Conqueror, by whom he left two sons present with their half- 
brother, Duke William, at the Battle of Hastings 1066, viz. : 

i. Robert, Count of Moreton or Mortein, Normandy, 

created Earl of Cornwall, with grants for 793 Manors, 
slain in Northumbria A.D. 1087; and left a son William, 



THE FAMILY Ol- \l.\\ 41 

who rebelled against Henry I., demanding the earldom 
of Kent, which his Uncle Odo had held. William left 
a son Adclm from whom derive the House of Clanri- 
cardc. 

H. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, created Earl of Kent in 1067, 
died 1096-98 — vide Selsden's Titles of Nobility, p. 527. 

2. Eustace, Ccuint of Comyn and Raron of Tonsbcrg, had son : — 

3. Robertus dc Comyn, Earl and Governor of Nortlnimberland, pro- 

genitor of all of the name in Scotland. King William sent him 
700 veteran Normans to enforce his authority in Northumber- 
land, and these soldiers having committed outrages at Durham, 
the natives rebelled, and Earl Robert and his 700 men were all 
killed save one. (1068-9.) 

Upon the death of Comyn, Cospatrick, son of Maldred by 
Algitha, daughter of Uchtred (who had been Earl of Northum- 
berland in tlie reign of Canute) bought the earldom from King 
William, but it being discovered he had countenanced the mur- 
der of Robert Cumyn, he was forced to fly from the wrath of 
William, and took refuge with Malcolm III., who made him 
Earl of Dunbar and Defender of the Marches. 

Cospatrick's race still exists in the Dunbars and Dundasses, 
although there is no longer a "Counte des Marches d'Ecosses" — 
though, oddly enough, he who held that title by lineal descent 
from Cospatrick in 1400 claimed cousinship with Henry IV. of 
England through the '■blude of the Cummyn," Henry claiming 
a like descent. 

Robert had two sons : — John, and William, who was bred a 
cleric by Gaufrcd or Geoffrey ; he became Chancellor to David 
I. of Scotland, and was nominated Bishop of Durham by Queen 
Matilda; d. ante 1144. 

4. John Comyn, son of Robert, was killed in the wars between 

King Stephen and Matilda, the Empress Queen, circa 1135. He 
must have married one of the heirs of Andrew Gifford of 
Fonthill, and left a son : 

5. William Comyn, son and heir, held in 1120 one-third of the lands 

Fonthill, in Wiltshire; he died before 1140, when his widow 
Maud, daughter of Thurston Banaster of Basset, married 2d 
William de Hastings. 

He had large possessions in Tynedale, and left two sons: — 
William, the eldest d.s.p., was killed in the contest for the 
Bishopric in 1144. His death caused his uncle to give up the 
struggle, and Northallerton and other lands were settled on 
the younger brother : — 

6. Richard Comyn, second son of William, had a grant of the lands 

and honours of Northallerton in 1144. 



42 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

He married Hextilda, daughter of the Countess of Etheltela, 
daughter of the Count de St. Pol by his wife Bethoc (Beatrix), 
daughter of King Donald Bane, second son of King Duncan, 
murdered by Macbeth. 

(It is remarkable, and it will show how the noble families 
of Scotland have intermarried, when it is observed that King 
Duncan had three sons, Malcolm Cawnmohr, Donald Bane, 
and Melmare, Earl of Athol, and each of these brothers was an 
ancestor of Colonel Ann Hawks Hay.) 

Richard Comyn obtained from Prince Henry lands in Peeble- 
shire, viz., the lands of Lynton-Ruderic now West Linton. 

"We find in 'Origines Parochials Scotiae' that between the 
years 1152 and 1159, Richard Comyn (the second of a race 
which rose within a century to a height of power which no 
other family in the land ever reached or attained in after 
times) gave to the monks of St. Mary of Kelso the Church 
of Lynton Ruderic," etc. 

By his wife Hextilda, Countess of Etheletela, whom he m. 
1 152, he had children: — 

i. John, died in lifetime of his father, bu. at Kelso. 

ii. 'William, his heir, vide below. 
iii. Odo, a Priest. 

iv. David, m. Isabel de Valoines, progenitors of the 
Cumyns of Kilbride, who in turn were progenitors of 
the Hamiltons. 
7. William Comyn, son and heir of Richard, b. 1163; was Great 
Justiciar of Scotland in 1209; and d. in 1233, aetat. 70. 

He married ist Matilda Urquhart, dau. of Coetisa, dau. of 
Banquo, by whom he left i. Margaret, m. Bartime Seton ; ii. 
Agnes, m. Philip de Melgdrum ; iii. Richard, Lord of Kirkentilt, 
whose only son John m. Matilda, Countess of Angus, and d. in 
France, 1242, leaving an infant son Bertraldt ; the Countess m. 
2d. Gilbert de Umphraville. iv. Walter Cumyn, m. 1231, the 
eldest daughter of Maurice, Earl of Menteith, and became Earl 
of Menteith in her right; he was Guardian and Regent of 
Scotland in 1249, and had a gift of Badenoch from Alexander 
II., and died without issue, 1258; v. John, the Red Comyn 
(No. i), who m. Marian, as some say, daughter of the Lord 
of Galloway and sister of Devorgoile, according to others daugh- 
ter of the Lord of the Isles. He d. 1273, and John Comyn, 
murdered by Bruce, was his grandson. 

William, son of Richard, married 2d Marjorie, daughter of 
Fergus, the last of the old line of earls, and in her right became 
1st Earl of Buchan of the house of Comyn. 
By her he had of the house of Buchan : — 
i. Alexander, 2d Earl of Buchan, succeeded his mother 



THE I'AMILY OF HAY 43 

1237; he m. Elizabeth, 2(1 dan. of Roger de Quincy, 
Earl of Winchester, by Alena, eldest dau. of Alan, Lord 
of Galloway by his first wife. Alexander was Great 
Justiciar in 1251, High Chancellor in 1270, till his death 
in 1289. 
ii. Fergus, 
iii. lilizabeth, m. William, 9th Earl of Mar. 

(Which gives Colonel Hay a second line of decent from 
the House of Comyn.) 
iv. Jean, m. Sir Gilbert de la Hay, Regent with his 

brother-in-law 1255-58. 
V. Marjorie, m. Sir William de Keith, Great Mareschal. 
vi. Isabel, m. Francis, Lord Cheyne of Inverugie and 
Cassilmont. 
"S. Marjorie, daughter of William Comyn, ist Earl of Buchan, by 
her husband Sir William de Keith, 6th Great Mareschal, had a 
daughter, 
■9. Christian, who married 1364, Sir John de la Hay, Lord of Tholy- 
bothil, who are in the direct line of Colonel Hay's ancestors, 
conveying to him a second strain of Comyn blood. (Vide Eliza- 
beth suprs.) 

Of Sir John de la Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, Douglas says, he 
was so great a lord that he was given on his shield as an extra 
mark of distinction — A Bend Dexter. 

(It may be of interest to our readers to trace the descent of King 
"Henry IV. of England from William Comyn, ist Earl of Buchan; this was 
as follows: — William, ist Earl of Buchan and his wife Marjorie, had a son: 
Alexander, w ho had a son : — Alexander, who had a daughter : — Alice, m. 
Henry de Beaumont, and had a daughter : — Isabel, m. Henry Plantagenet, 
Duke of Lancaster, and had a daughter : — The Lady Blanche Plantagenet, 
m. John of Gaunt, third son of Edward III., and a son: — Henry IV., 
King of England, who was proud of his Comyn blood, and claimed to be 
half a Scot.) — The Lineage of Comyn is taken from the book of Mrs. Cum- 
ming-Bruce, "The Bruces and Cumyns." 

Sir John de la Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, by his wife, Chris- 
tian, daughter of Sir William de Keith (vide "Keith" 8 and 9) 
by his wife Marjorie Comyn, daughter of William, ist Earl of 
Buchan (vide "Com>Ti" 6 and 7) had a son: — 

i, Sir John de la Hay, 2d Lord of Tholybothil ; history 
follows. 




>0bentt) feneration 



IIR JOHN DE LA HAY, 2d Lord of Tholybothil^ 
was the son of Sir John de la Hay by his spouse, 
Christian Keith, daughter of Sir William de Keith,. 
Great Mareschal of Scotland, and was living A. D^ 
1380. He also possessed the lands of Park and 
Lochloy in Nairnshire; Boyne and Enzie in Banff- 
shire ; Touch and Tullibody in Clackmannanshire ; and is frequently 
styled : "John Hay of Boyne and Enzie." 

He married A.D. 1388, Margaret Stewart, the youngest daugh- 
ter of Sir John Stewart of Railston, the eldest son of Walter the 
Steward by his ist wife Alice Erskine, a daughter of Sir John Ers- 
kine of Erskine, great-grandson of Henry de Erskine, who, during^ 
the reign of Alexander H., possessed the barony of Erskine in 
Renfrewshire, south of the Clyde. 

As King Robert H. was the only child of Walter the Steward 
by his 2d wife Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert L, he was 
a half-brother of Sir John Stewart of Railston, and a half-uncle to 
Margaret Stewart, the latter's daughter; thus it follows, that upon- 
the occasion of Margaret's marriage to Sir John Hay, King Robert 
IL, in a gift of dowry, refers to her as his niece. 

(For mention of this marriage vide : "The Bruces and Cumyns," p. 
618, and 'The History of Nairnshire," p. 108. Sir James Balfour Paul, 
Lord Lyon of Scotland, in a letter to the writer says : "Sir John Hay of 
Boyne and Enzie" married Margaret, a half-niece of King Robert IL) 

Colonel Hay was descended from Walter the Steward by the 
latter's marriages to Alice Erskine and to Marjorie Bruce, therefore 
we introduce the pedigree of Margaret Stewart. 

Uln^ nf &trtttart 

I. Alan obtained soon after the Conquest a grant of the Castle of 
Oswestry, in which grant he is spoken of as the son of Fiaald. 
He married the daughter and heiress of Warine, Sheriflf of 

44 



THE FAMILY OI-- HAY 45 

Shropshire, in the time of William the Conqueror, and had 
three sons: — i. William, from whom descend the Earls of 
Arundel, and Duke of Norfolk; ii. Walter Fitzalan, vide be- 
low ; iii. Simon, who accompanied his brother Walter to Scot- 
land and founded the family of Boyd, from which, we have 
seen, descend the Earls of Erroll. 

2. Walter Fitzalan, 2d son of Alan, was made by King David I. 

High Steward of Scotland. He married Eschina, daughter of 
Thomas de Londoniis, heiress of Molla and Huntlaw, in Rox- 
burghshire, and died A.D. 1177, leaving an only son. 

3. Alan, his son, who was 2d High Steward. 

4. Walter, his son, who was 3d High Steward. 

5. Alexander, his son, who was 4th High Steward, who had two 

sons : — James, vide below ; and John, who married Margaret, 
the daughter and heiress of Sir John Bonkyl of Bonkyl, and 
from them descended some of the most considerable branches 
of the name, among whom was Lord Darnlcy, Stewart, Earl 
of Lennox, who married his cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, 
from whom were James I., of England, and almost all the 
sovereigns of Europe. 

Sir John Stewart in right of Margaret his wife is known 
as Sir John Stewart Bonkyl, and by her he had a son. Sir 
Alexander Stewart of Bonkyl, who succeeded to his maternal 
grandfather's estate and had a daughter, Isabella Stewart, who 
married Donald, i2th Earl of Mar, by whom she had a daughter 
Mary, married Kenneth, 4th Earl of Sutherland. 

These were progenitors of Colonel Hay as will be seen later 
in the lineage of Janet Sutherland. 

6. James, eldest son of Alexander, was the 5th High Steward. 

7. Walter, son of James, was 6th High Steward of Scotland. He 

espoused the cause of Robert the Bruce, and was present at 
the Battle of Bannockburn. 

He married ist Alice Erskine, daughter of Sir John Erskine, 
and had three sons and one daughter — the eldest son was Sir 
John Stewart of Railston, whose daughter Margaret married 
Sir John Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, Boyne, and Enzie. (For 
their posterity vide below.) 

Walter the Steward married 2d Marjorie Bruce, the only 
daughter of King Robert I., and had a son King Robert IL, 
who had a son King Robert HI., whose daughter Mary mar- 
ried George Douglas, ist. Earl of Angus, who were ancestors 
of Colonel Hay; (vide "The Line of Douglas" given later in this 
■work). 

Walter the Steward married 3d Isobel Graham. 

8. Sir John Stewart of Railston, son of Walter the Steward by his 

1st. wife Alice Erskine, had among other children: — 



46 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

9. Margaret Stewart, half-niece of King Robert II., who makes to 
her on her marriage a gift of dowry, she married, as has been 
shown, Sir John Hay, Lord of Tholybothil, Lochloy, Boyne, 
and Enzie, had issue : — ("The Bruces and Cumyns," p. 618.) 
i. Sir James Hay of Enzie, Boyne, Touch, and Tulli- 

body, who left sons : 

Sir John Hay, who married a daughter of the Earl 
of Ross, and died ante 1425, leaving a daughter and 
heiress — Egidia Hay, who married Alexander, ist Earl 
of Huntly (created 1449), by whom she had a son — 
Sir Alexander of Touch, ist. Lord Seton, — from whom 
the Setons of Touch. 

Sir Gilbert Hay, 2d. son of Sir James, married Mar- 
garet Gordon of Strathbolgie and left two sons : — 
David d.s.p. ; and Andrew Hay, who had a son 
Alexander d.s.p. and a daughter — Helen Hay, who 
married an Abercrombie, whence the lords Abercrombie 
of Tullibody. 
ii. William Hay of Lochloy, whose history is given in 
Section VIII. and is in direct line of Colonel Hay's 
pedigree. 
iii. John Hay, who left a daughter, Euphemia Hay, who 
married Sir John Sinclair of Deskford (who raised 
the fallen banner of the dying Douglas at Otterburn) 
and his daughter Margaret Sinclair married Sir Walter 
Ogilvie, from whom descend the Earls of Findlater 
(and also Colonel Hay, who derives also from Sir 
Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Huntly, by his 3d mar- 
riage to Margaret Crichton). 



Ciflfjtf) ^tneration 




ilLLIAM HAY OF LOCHLOY was the second son 
of Sir John Hay of Boyne, Enzie, Tholybothil, 
Touch, TuIHbody, and Lochloy, by his spouse Mar- 
garet Stewart, half-niece of King Robert H., and 
(laughter of Sir John Stewart of Railston. (Vide 
"Stewart," Sec. VH.) 
"His monument is still to be seen at Elgin Cathedral — the 
oldest tomb but one of a layman within the sacred precincts. The 
monument is in the transept. It consists of a stone sarcophagus 
with the colossal figure of a knight in complete armor with dirk and 
spurs still visible. The feet rest upon a lion couchant and the stone 
bears an inscription." The following is the inscription sent the 
writer by Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart., of Elgin: — Hie Jacet Wills, 
de la Hay, quonda aens. de Lochloy, qui obiit viii die mensis 
Decembris anno Dom. MCCCCXXI. — (We now resume our extract 
from "The History of Nairn," by George Bain) : 

"Mention is made of this old Knight at a great gathering of northern 
gentry at the kirkyard of Chanonry of Rosemarkie, i6th August 1420. 
Amongst those present were John, Bishop of Ross; Dame Mary of the 
Isles and of Ross; Hugh Fraser Lord Lovat ; John M'Leod Lord of 
Glenelg; .Angus Gothrason of the Isles; Sir William Fraser Dean of Ross; 
Walter Douglas Sheriff of Elgin ; Walter Inncs Lord of that ilk ; Urquhart 
of Cromarty; Donald of Kaledor; Thane of that Ilk; Sinclair of Deskford; 
John the Rose Lord of Kilravock ; John of Nairn Lord of Ardmuthack ; 
with many others. 

'The object of the meeting was to witness the resignation of the lands 
of Kerdale, Inverness-shire, by William the Graeme into the hands of 'a 
noble lord and a michty, Thomas Earl of Murray,' over-lord of the barony 
of Kerdale, and the earl conveys back the said lands to Graham and his 
heirs male, failing which to William Hay, his 'good-father,' Lord of Loch- 
loy, and his male heirs." 



48 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Mr. Bain continues : 

"The proceedings at Rosemarkie meant more than appears on the face 
of the deed, which was simply a regulation of succession. There was match- 
making in the business. The Earl of Moray had at this time a particular 
interest in the Hays of Lochloy, for John, William de la Hay's son, was 
engaged to marry the earl's daughter. But John proved fickle. He fell 
in love with a daughter of the Thane of Cawdor, and wished to be oflf with 
the old love. 

"He received a communication from the Earl of Moray, and never did 
a disappointed father-in-law write a more tender, dignified and generous 
letter in such delicate circumstances." (This letter will be given in the 
next section, which is devoted to John de la Hay.) 

The "History of Nairnshire" continues: — 

"The Hays of Lochloy in the course of a generation or two became 
extensive land owners. Besides Lochloy, they had : Inshoch, Park, Kin- 
nudie, Meikle Urchany, Wester Raite, Foynesfield, Dallas, and other posses- 
sions in the north and south. They were at the height of their prosperity 
about the close of the sixteenth century. David Hay of Lochloy married 
Marie Rose of Kilavock in 1605. She lived to see her eighty-eighth year, 
and when she died it is stated there were descended of her no less than 
one hundred and ten persons then in life." — Mr. George Bain in the "History 
of Nairnshire"; from his writings we also quote the following beautiful 
descriptions of Inshoch Castle, three miles to the east of Auldearn, and of 
Lochloy as he saw it a few years since on the coast of Moray, not far to 
the east of the town of Nairn : — 

"The ancient and knightly family of Hay of Lochloy, near neighbors 
of the Brodies, acquired at a very early period lands in Nairnshire. It 
was one of the oldest branches of the Hays of Erroll. 

The first mention of Lochloy was in connection with the landing of 
Harold, Earl of Caithness, at the port of Lochloy to make submission to 
King William the Lion, at the Castle of Nairn. ****** Wg now 
come to one of the prettiest and most interesting bits of scenery of its kind 
in this part of the country. 

It is entitled to be called the Lake District, and no description can 
convey an idea of its beauty, but here are its elements : — 

There is the dense wood of Lochloy forming a dark background to 
the deep-blue water of the lake lying at its foot. 

The Loch, which wears a somewhat cold and wintry look on the hottest 
days, loses itself westward in a morass of rushes and aquatic plants. Along 
its northern edge, the sward, cut up into plots and patches, is the greenest 
of the green. 

You look eastward and see the Loch rounded by another patch of 
green turf; and it is succeeded by another sheet of water known as the 
Gran Loch, and the water — being for the most part shallow — the light plays 
upon the surface in brightest colors, giving us 'Green Isles set in amber.' 



THE FAMILY OF 1 1 AY 49 

The carsc beyond has been planted, but has wonderful open spaces; 
£0 that you have beautiful glades, far-stretching avenues, up which you 
momentarily expect to see some gay cavalcade or fairy procession advancing. 

To the eye the scene is really charming and then it teems with life, 
with bird life especially. In the far plantations you hear the familiar song- 
sters of the grove piping their lays unceasingly, and you are startled by 
the plaintive note of the cuckoo — 'telling its name to all the wood.' A 
flock of wild geese are feeding among the sedgy reeds of Lochloy, and it 
may be, as it often happens, a pair of wild swans are floating majestically 
in the centre of the great loch. As you move eastward the air becomes 
thick with water fowl. 

The coot, with a hoarse cry, rises from its nest, and plunges awkwardly 
into the loch, ploughing it as it goes. The pee-wits, which have long ere 
this become unwelcome attendants, now thoroughly alarmed at your intru- 
sion, make threatening swoops at your head ; while flocks of little duck- 
lings, most comical looking in their newly fledged state, go racing and 
swimming about as for dear life. And for nests, — at the end of April or 
early May is the nesting season, every second or third tuft of grass on the 
island contains one. But what need to describe a scene made classical to 
all lovers of natural history by the graphic pen of the late Mr. St. John ! 
In his books you will read of his shooting swans at Lochloy; watching 
flocks of geese on the shore; hunting roe and foxes in the Black Wood 
close by; and having perilous encounters with seals on the Old Bar. Mr. 
St. John was an English gentleman, who tired of fashionable life, and 
betook himself to this part of the country. He was a keen sportsman, and 
at the same time a most observant naturalist, and his book, 'Wild Sport 
and Natural History of The Highlands,' is full of incident and adventure. 
To his pleasant pages I refer you for further information respecting the 
wild denizens of the marshes of Lochloy. His early volume, 'Sport in 
Moray,' gives the fullest particulars about Lochloy. 

But a word or two before we leave the spot about the family history 
of Lochloy. At a very early date we read of John de la Hay of Lochloy. 
He was one of the supporters of Baliol as against Bruce. The family was 
a branch of the Hays of Ercoll.. Doubtless they had a house at Lochloy, 
but in later centuries the old Qistle of Inshoch was the family residence. 
The property at one time included Knockoudie and Park. One of the 
recumbent stone figures in Elgin Cathedral, representing in life size a 
warrior taking his rest, is a memorial of William Hay of Lochloy, and in 
Auldearn church-yard we have the last resting place of Hay of Lochloy, 
with a large tablet giving an account of the glories of the Hays, who were 
ranked among the nobles of the land in the olden time. ****** 
Immediately to the east of Lochloy is the town of Mavistown." 

Does not this poetical description rest our readers in their 
plodding through these pages? Let us now go a few miles south of 
Lochloy to a spot a few miles east of Auldearn, on a hne with Park 



50 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

and Cawdor Castle to the west of that historical town, and, pausing 
a moment on the moor, search for traces of the witches who fore- 
told to Macbeth his fortune — they should be there if such beings 
leave an impression of themselves behind. What we do find is the 
picturesque ruin of an old castle once belonging to the Hays of 
Lochloy — Inshoch Castle thus described by our friend, Mr. Bain : — 

"The Hays originally had a residence at Lochloy on the site now 
occupied by the house of the Baillies of Lochloy — a position on the coast 
commanding a wide view of the Moray Firth. At a very early period, how- 
ever, a second castle was built more inland, namely, at Inshoch, and remains 
of it still exist. It was protected on one side by an impassable peat moss, 
and as the name would indicate, 'Insh-ach,' the island field, was surrounded 
with ditches formed by the overflow of the bog. The Castle had its 
entrance on the ground floor. On the landing of the stair adjoining the 
hall, a stone basin in a pretty little gothic arch was provided for washing 
the hands, with a drain for carrying off the water. The Hall itself was 
a handsome, well-lighted apartment, thirty feet by seventeen feet, with 
plastered walls, a large fireplace with moulded gambs, above which is a 
shield displaying the armorial bearings of the Hays of Lochloy — the insignia 
that had floated on many a field of battle. 

The oldest part of the building shows a simple keep with round towers 
placed diagonally, so as to command the four sides of the main building,, 
and turrets in the angles. 

The original building appears to have been altered and additions made 
to it, doubtless to meet the requirements of a more advanced civilization. 
The ground floor was vaulted throughout and contained a kitchen with a 
very large fireplace, and numerous cellars. Except the kitchen window, 
which may have been enlarged, the basement was lighted with narrow loops. 
A stone sink is fitted into the kitchen window, connected by a drain to the 
outside. 

In the larger turret to the southwest, there is a very pretty little 
private room, commanding a charming view and provided with stone seats 
— doubtless my lady's boudoir. 

The ruins are in a dilapidated state, and a considerable portion fell 
in the great storm of 1879, the night of the Tay Bridge disaster. * * * 

* * * 'phe family declined in the middle of the seventeenth century 
and the lands are now possessed by Brodie of Brodie." 

In another publication, "Guide to Nairn and Its Neighbor- 
hood," Mr. Bain writes : — 

"Leaving Auldearn and pursuing your way eastward, the Castle of 
Inshoch comes full into view. ****** j^ jg ^^^jj^ jj^ ^^le usual 
castellated style common to the period and is a most picturesque ruin. * * 

* * * * The curious construction of the old staircase leading up to the 




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Till': l•^\MIL^' oi" ii.w 51 

'Lookout' is will scfii through the hrnkcn masonry and with the assistance 
of a ladder adventurous youths still climb to the top. In years long gone 
this ancient castle was tlie stronRhold df the Hays of Lochloy, a family that 
lonK flourished as one of the most powerful of northern 'septs' and figures 
largely in local tradition. ****** B^t we arc not far from the 
classic ground of the Hard-muir, "The Blasted Heath of Macbeth." On a 
hillock near the old Toll-house, a little ofT the road, marked by a few old 
pines, danced the witches, whose singular greeting of Macbeth by the titles 
of Thane of Cdamis, Thane of Cawdor, and 'King Hereafter,' first fired his 
ambition and led him to murder his king. As the witches danced they 
sang— 

'The weird sisters, hand in hand, 

Posters of the sea and land, 

Thrice do go about, about ; 

Thrice to thine and thrice to mine. 

And thrice again to make up nine.' 

After the overthrow of the conspiracy by Macdonald of the Isles and 
the Thane of Cawdor with the King of Norway, and the subjugation of 
the Western Isles, Macbeth and Banquo return from the west coast. 

The news of the great victory they had achieved had reached Forres, 
w^hcre King Duncan was, first by the wounded Sergeant and then by the 
Thane of Ross. Crossing the moor after a fatiguing journey, 'So foul 
and fair a day,' exclaimed Banquo, 'I have not seen,' he impatiently asks — 

'How far is't called to Forres?' 
Before answer can be made he is startled by the appearance of three 
withered hags, whom he boldly addresses — 

' — What are these. 
So withered and so wild in their attire. 
That look not like the inhabitants of the earth, 
And yet are on it. Live you? or are you aught 
That man may question? You seem to understand me. 
By each at once her chappy fingers laying 
Upon her skinny lips ! You should be women 
And yet ybur beards forbid me to interpret 
That you are so. 

Macbeth — Speak if you can, what are you? 

First Witch— All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Glamis ! 

Second Witch— All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! 

Third Witch— .Ml hail, Macbeth! Thou shalt be king hereafter!' 

Macbeth afterward eagerly demanded an explanation of their mystic 
word. 

' — Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. 
By Sinel's death, I know I am Thane of Glamis. 
But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives 



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52 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

A prosperous gentleman ; and to be king 

Stands not within the prospect of belief, 

No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence 

You owe this strange intelligence? or why 

Upon this blasted heath you stop our way 

With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you!' 

The heath is now under cultivation and has lost its bleak aspect, but 
who, so near the spot of such a remarkable scene in this tragedy of the 
immortal bard, would not indulge his fancy in viewing it, although his- 
torically regarded as fictitious." 

Each square inch of Scotland's soil is historic ground, and here 
we are surrounded by the amphitheatre of scenes which have stirred 
the pulses of the world — but two of these we may glance at in pass- 
ing. A few miles west of Inshoch Castle was fought in early May, 
1645, the Battle of Auldearn, where the noble Marquis of Montrose, 
a descendant of a Hay, defeated General Hurry with twice the 
number of the Highland forces. In this battle fought Hay of Kin- 
nudie and Hay of Lochloy; the former was slain. A century later 
the celebrated Battle of Culloden was lost to the brave and romantic 
Charles Edward Stewart, about a half -day's ride from Auldearn 
toward the west. The day preceding the fatal fight, the Prince and 
his secretary, Mr. Hay, formed a party at dinner with their hosts, 
Rose, Baron of Kilravock, and his Lady, at Kilravock Castle, and 
the next night at this same castle was entertained His Highness, 
the Duke of Cumberland, whose exhibition of cruelty in putting to 
death the Highlanders lying wounded and helpless on the battle- 
field, will for all time brand him with the stigma we would fain see 
unmerited. "Fraser of Inverallochy, severely wounded, leaned 
wearily on the turf dyke, when Hawley riding by demanded, "To 
whom do you belong?" "To the Prince, sire," was the Chieftain's 
unhesitating reply. "Shoot that dog!" said Hawley to his aide-de- 
camp. "No, sire ! I am a soldier, not an executioner. My commis- 
sion is at your disposal, but I can not and v/ill not shoot him," re- 
plied the young officer. It was Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, who 
thus refused to act the butcher. It is a Highland tradition that 
thirteen years later, when General Wolf on the Heights of Abraham 
fell back mortally wounded, it was the arms of Eraser of Lovat 
which received him, and, along with Simon Eraser, the younger 
brother of Inverallochy, bore him tenderly ofif the field." In the 



Till', FAMILY OF HAY 53 

"Story of Culloilcn Moor," by Mr. liain, the account of this bat- 
tle — and campaici'n Icadinc: to it — is set forth in a most dcH;:^htful, 
simple, chaste, and masterly style. 

Mr. IvdlHit I.c-lir Moir of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a descend- 
ant of (he I lays, sent the wriur the following touching account of a 
visit ho paid to Culloden : — 

"The battlefield at the present time is under the plough, all except 
where tlic thickest of the fight took place. This has been preserved practi- 
cally as it was on the day of the battle and surrounded by a belt of wood, 
by the good taste, I believe, of Duncan of Forbes. The principal object on 
the moor is the cairn, erected to the memory of the clansmen who fell that 
day. You arc supposed to add a stone to it. On each side of the road 
loading through the actual place of conflict (this road did not exist in 
1746) are the graves of the Highlanders who fought so well that fatal day, 
each clan by themselves. After the battle, they were identified by their 
tartans and buried in heaps — Macintoshes, Erasers, Macdonalds, Macgilliv- 
rays, Camerons, Stuarts of Appin, and many more. 

There are also two trenches of 'Mixed Clan.s,' to my mind the saddest 
thought of all. They were, indeed, 'mixed' at Culloden. The 'Well of 
the Dead,' where the young chief of the 'Macgillivrays' fell, is still to be 
seen ; but no one drinks from it now, as his blood still reddens the water. 
Macgillivray was wounded, but managed to get his back against a wall 
or stone fence hard by, and fought there until literally cut to pieces. I 
have been told that fourteen dead Englishmen were found near his body 
next day. Xear by is 'The Field of the English Dead,' where the Englishry 
lie buried. This, when I was there, was being sown with corn. (Without 
doubt there were sad hearts in England, too, after the carnage of Drumossie 
Moor.) A little farther on is the stone from which Cumberland directed 
the battle; and although there is nothing to mark the spot, an old man 
pointed out the place where Prince Charles Edward stood and watched 
the conflict. If this was the place, why no stone to mark it? One to 'The 
Butcher' but not one to our own 'King of the Hielan Hearts'? Oh, shame! 

The deep stillness of the place broken only by the distant call of some 
wild creature of the moors, the great hills looking down on the battle- 
field just as they looked on the day of action, the mounds of the mighty 
dead, the romance and glamor of the whole scene, powerfully excite the 
imagination ; and in fancy I almost saw the wave of the tartans, and heard 
the slogan of the clansmen, as, impatient of inaction (like true Highlanders) 
and maddened by the havoc wrought in their ranks by the artillery of the 
enemy, they burst, like one of their own mountain torrents, on the Hano- 
verian lines, to the scream of their native pipes, and the boom of the 
English cannon. In vain, brave hearts, in vain ! All that valor, all that 
desperation could do was done, but the star of the Stuarts was set, and 
the miglity heart of Scotland broken. 



54 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

The shadows of evening were beginning to gather, warning me it was 
time to be moving; so, with bared head and reverent heart, I stooped me 
down and plucked a bit of heather from each hallowed mound, beneath 
which lay, in the silent sleep of death, so many of the brave, the noble, and 
the true. 

To many lands have these mountain flowers been sent, to clansmen 
in Canada, in India, and in Africa, to help to keep the memory green of 
those gallant hearts, who, famished, exhausted, and broken, yet faced the 
Hanoverian host in the blinding sleet and hail of that fatal April day so 
long ago, and died the death of heroes for Scotland and Prince Charlie." 

The following lines were inspired by some heather sent by the 
writer of the above description to a South Carolina daughter of the 
Hays of Erroll and Lochloy, and will show that though separated 
from Scotland by many generations and many thousand miles, she 
is still leal to "her ain countrie." 

"Only a spray of heather from those Scotch hills far away, 

From moors of waving purple, where my spirit loves to stray, 

Yet it brings a fragrant message from the land I love so well. 

And tenderly I'll cherish the bonnie heather-bell. 

"I feel as I gaze on its beauty, and hold it so close in my hand. 

Some day I must cross the broad ocean, and among the sweet heather-bells 

stand. 
And there, as they wave in the breezes, full many a tale will they tell 
Of noble deeds when my fathers dwelt in the land of the heather-bell. 
"My pulse throbs warm as I listen to tales of her warriors brave, 
Who with hearts that were leal, and arms that were strong, stood ready 

their country to save ; 
And tho' in the battle full many, by swift flying darts, were laid low. 
With last labor'd breath, their cry was 'Advance !' they died with their face 

to the foe. 
"There in the dusk of a terrible day, their forms lie silent and cold, 
The moon, when it rose, shed a pitying ray, on the faces of young and of old, 
And one grasps his sword in a firm, rigid hand, the other is press'd to his 

side 
To stay the sharp pain of a deep, cruel wound, and stifle a groan ere he died. 
"Here rests the form of a brave, noble lad, who fell on a heather-clad mound, 
All stain'd with his life-blood, while clasp'd in his hand a bunch of the 

blossoms is found, 
Press'd close to his heart, while the look on his face a story of love seems 

to tell. 
Of one who is waiting to crown him at home with a garland of sweet 

heather-bell. 



THE !• AMILV Ol- IIAV 55 

"And the sad winds wail and whisper of tliaf time now dead and gone, 

When the luatluT hells were tolling a retiuieni forlorn, 

In dreams 1 love to wander o'er those shadowy hanks and braes, 

To hear the echo'd message from their vanish'd, hallovv'd days. 

"So I bless this spray of heather, which brings to mc these dreams 

Of mossy banks and bonnie braes and gentle flowing streams, 

And when the shadows lengthen, and I lay mc down to rest. 

May a kind hand place the heather upon my pulseless breast." 

— Patti Lee Hay Colcock. 

We nnist. however, resist the spell tempting us to linger by the 
wayside of Scottish romance and poetry, and proceed with tracing 
the footprints left behind Ijy a family of Scotland. 

William de la Hay. Lord of L'-^chloy, married Janet Macintosh, 
eldest daughter of William Macintosh, by his 2d marriage late 
in life to Margaret, daughter of Rurorie (Rorie) Mor M'Leod of 
Lewis, who was the seventh Chief of the Macintosh Clan. 

(In a letter to the writer of this work, Mr. George Bain, Historian of 
Nairnshire, writes : — "According to the Kinrara Manuscript, William Mac- 
intosh, reckoned 7th Chief of the Macintosh Clan, by his 2d marriage late 
in life with Margaret, daughter of Rurorie Mor M'Leod of Lewes, had 
one son Malcolm Beg (who became loth Chief) and five daughters, the 
eldest of whom, Janet, he gave in marriage to the Lord of Lochloy, sur- 
namcd Hay." 

Mr. Bain continues in his letter: — "Mr. A. ^L Macintosh, the his- 
torian of the family, informs me that this marriage may be placed early in 
the 15th century; Janet's brother, Malcolm loth Chief, was alive in 1457, 
but must at that time have been very old." 

The above marriage of William Hay of Lochloy is likewise given by 
Mrs. Cumming-Bruce in her work, "The Bruces and the Cummings." 

Clan of fflariutttuBlj 

(From "The Family of Kilravock," prii.tcd by The Spalding Club) : — 
"'Tis allowed that Macintosh is descended of Mac DufT, Thane of Fyfe. 

So the name signifies, viz.: 'Mac,' that is, 'son,' and Tosche' (in the British 

Twisoc from Tus, i. e. 'Chief') 'Thane.' 

Schaw, son of Duncan M'Duff, Thane and Earl of Fyfe who died in 
the year 1154, is said to have come into the north with King Malcolm IV., 
in his expedition against the Moravicnses about 1160, and to have been 
made by him Governor of the Castle of Inverness, with a gift of lands in 
Petty and in Strathearn ; and, rearing a faniilj*, separate from his father, 
assumed the surname of Macintosh (son of the chief) in memory of his 
descent. ****** Jhe sixth from this Schaw inclusive was 
Angus Macintosh, who about the year 1291 married Eve Catach, the 



56 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

daughter and heir of Donal or Dougal, Chief of the Clanchatan, and with 
her he got the lands of Strathlochy, Glenly, and Locharkeg, which remained 
in the family of Macintosh until sold to the Earl of Argyle (of whom 
Lociel holds them) in 1665, for 70,000 merles Scots. ***** *Eve 
Catach, who married Macintosh, was the heir female (Clunie's ancestor 
being the heir male) and had Macintosh assumed her surname, he would 
(say the MacPhersons) have been the Chief of the Clanchatan according to 
the custom of Scotland. ****** 

Be this as it will, Macintosh's predecessors were, for above three 
hundred years, designed 'Captains' of Clanchatan in royal charters and 
commissions, in bonds, contracts, history, heraldic, etc.; the occasion of 
which title was that several tribes or clans (every clan retaining its own 
surname) united in the general designation of 'Clanchatan'; and of this 
incorporated body Macintosh was the head, leader, or captain. 

These united tribes were : Macintosh, MacPherson, Davidson, Shaw, 
MacBean, MacGilivray, MacQueen, Smith, Maclntyre, MacPhail, etc. 

In those times of barbarity and violence, small and weak tribes found 
it necessary to unite with more numerous and powerful tribes. As long 
as the tribes of Clanchatan remained united (which was until the family 
of Gordon breaking with the family of Macintosh, broke their coalition) 
they were able to defend themselves against any other clan." 

In this connection the following incident will be recalled by our readers : 

"Sept. 28, 1396, the Clanchatan under Schaw Macintosh fight against 
the Clancaie for precedence, thrittie against thrittie, at Saint Johnstone, 
North Inch of Perth, west bank of Tay, the place. 

Schaw is third in succession, is acknowledged chief, and drops his first 
name as indicating descent from the Thayne of Fyfe. (It follows from this 
that both MacDuff of Fife, and Macintosh of Clanchatan are ancestors of 
Colonel Hay). 

An account of this fight is thus recorded in Scottish History : — 

"There being a great debate for precedence between Clanchatan and 
Clancaie — the first commanded by Statte Beg, the last by Gillichrist M'Kean 
— which occasioned much bloodshed among themselves, and robberies in the 
country about them, the quarrel being irreconcilable, by advice of the Earl 
of Crawford and Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Murray, they resolve to fight for 
it, thirty against thirty, with swords only, before the King. 

The day is appointed, St. Johnstone and North Inch, there the place. 
One of the Clanchatan is wanting, and so the appointment is near deserted, 
till Henry Wynd, a saddler, for a small piece of money, and assurance of 
maintenance if maimed, undertakes to supply the place of the absent. 

A desperate and bloody combat follows in presence of King and 
nobilitie till the whole clan were killed except one who leaped into Tay, 
and escaped by swimming. 

Of the other clan, ten and the saddler survived, but were wounded. 
The saddler fought notably, 'for his own hand,' he said. 



THE lA.MlLV OF HAY 57 

This made Macintosh predecessor Captain of the whole clanchatan, 
though tlicrc had been two or tliree before. This was in the year 1396." 

William Hay of Lochloy, by his wife Janet Macintosh, daugh- 
ter of William Macintosh, seventh chief of the clan Macintosh, had 
one son: — ("The Bruces and Cummings," p. 618.) 

i. John dc la Hay, Lord of Lochloy. (Vide Section IX.) 
ii. A daughter wlio married William Graeme, Baron of Kcrdalc in 
Inverness-shire; (vide a letter from Thomas Dunbar, Earl of 
Moray to John de la Hay, releasing him from an engagement 
to his daughter, in wliich William Graeme is referred to as 
"your brother"). 





^intf) (feneration 



pHN DE LA HAY, LORD OF LOCHLOY, was 

J^ the only son of William of Lochloy, by his spouse 
^ Janet Macintosh, eldest daughter of William Mac- 
^ Intosh, 7th Chief of the clan Macintosh. He died 
A. D. 1431. 

"He espouses a daughter of his beloved cousin, 
Donald, Thane of Cawdor, at Elgin, the xvth daie of Fev. 1422." — 
(Mr. Bain and Mrs. Cumming-Bruce). 

It had been arranged at Rosemarkie (vide section VIII.) be- 
tween William de la Hay and the Earl of Moray that the son of 
the former was to marry the daughter of the latter, but John 
losing his heart to a daughter of Donald, Thane of Cawdor, the 
latter requested the Earl of Moray to release John de la Hay from 
this engagement. 

The following will show how generously this request was 
granted in a letter which bears the legend "Thomas Dunbar, 
Comitis Morauie":— ("The Kilravock Family" and "The His. 
Nairn"). 

"Thomas Erie of Murreff til our richt well belovit Jone the Haye, Lord 
of Lochloy, greeting : 

"It is in fresh memorie with you, as we understand, that throu certain 
tailye made betwix us and your fadir, ye are oblisit to spouse a douchter of 
ours, for the quhilk thing to be done, we confermit to your fadir a tailye 
betwix him and the lord of Dolas apon the lordship of Dolas, and forgifl 
till him fourtez poundez, the quhilk suld haf bene paiit tilus for the relife 
of that land; and awls for that ilke marriage, we confermit til your fadir a 
tailye betwix him and your brither Wilyame the Grahame, apon the landez 
of half the barony of Kerdale, and resavit you to the like landez upon the 
saide tailye; and now of new, we haf herdbe certain relacion of our luffit 
cusine, Donaldo, thayne of Caldor, that you wald be releschit from your 
oblising til us of the saide mariage, and haf our licence, freedome, and gude 
will, to spouse a douchter of the saide Donaldo, thayne of Caldor, with sic 

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THE FAMILY OF HAY 59 

commands, frcedomcs, and rewards as are forspokyn, and as wc grantit 
unto you of bcforetyme. 

"Quharforc, be the tenor of thir our letteris, of your oblising made to 
us of bcforetyme, baith be your fadir and be yoursclfT, for the mariage of 
our douchter, we releschc you, dischargis you, and quitclemis you for ever, 
gifing and granting to you our council, our licence, and gude will to spouse 
and til haf to your wif, the douchter of the said Donaldo, thayne of Caldor, 
with sic freedoms, profitis, and rcwardis, as war forspokyn in our first com- 
mands, togiddcr wid our help, suppout, and maintenance, in al your lachful 
and liveful errandis in al tyme to cum; thereatour we haf grantit and giffin, 
and be thir our letteris grantis and gifis to the said Donaldo, thayne of 
Caldor, fourte markez of the rclese of your landez of the half of the barony 
of Kerdale, the quhilk Wilyame the Haye, your fadir, was oblisit to pay til 
us, of the quhilk we quitcleme you for ever be the teneur of thir lettre, to 
the quhilk our sele we haf girt beput, at Elgin, the xv dai of the moneth of 
Feueryere, the yere of our Lord a thousand four hunder twenti and twa 
yere." 

(We think our readers will agree with us in the opinion that 
the Englisli and spelling of the nineteenth century is an improve- 
ment upon that of the fifteenth, and we shall not ourselves attempt 
a translation of the above, leaving them to do so.) 

(The following is based upon "The History of Nairnshire" 
and "Guide to Nairn," by Mr. George Bain.) 

2Il|f Earlg QHjanrg of Cauilmr 

The original patrimony of the Thanes of Cawdor appear to have been 
limited to the fertile valley lying between Brackla and Barivan. The first 
addition to their early heritage were the lands of Highland Boath and 
Banchor — at one time held by the illustrious family of Durward by charter 
of Alexander II. 

The Thanes of Cawdor, says Shaw, the historian of Moray, as Con- 
stables of the King's house resided in the Castle of Nairn, and had a 
country seat at what is now called "Old Cawdor," a half-mile north from the 
present seat (about 10 miles south of the town of Nairn, and a few miles 
west of Auldearn but to the east of the river Nairn). Here they had a 
house on a small moat with ditch and drawbridge, the vestiges of which 
were still to be seen in 1720. 

But another building was erected and the appearance of the Castle is 
most imposing. It is protected by a fosse and its entrance secured by a 
quaint old drawbridge, and stands among the hills a half-mile south of their 
original country seat. 

The tradition is that the Thane of Cawdor, anxious to build another 
house, but hesitating as to its site, was directed in a dream to bind the 
coffer containing the treasures collected for the architectural purpose to an 



6o THE FAMILY OF HAY 

ass, and set the animal free, and build wherever it might stop. The ass 
came to a first hawthorn tree, looked at it but passed on ; it came to a 
second tree, rubbed against it but still passed on ; when it came to the third 
hawthorn tree, on the bank of the burn, it lay down beside it with its 
treasure burden. Around this tree the Thane built his castle, and in the 
lowest vault of the tower, the trunk of a hawthorn, firm and sound, growing 
out of a rock and reaching to the top of the vault, is still to be seen. 
Strangers are brought to stand around it, each to take a chip of it, and 
then to drink to the hawthorn tree, and prosperity to the house of Caldor 
or Cawdor. 

The Cawdor genealogical tree gives the following succession 
of Thanes : — 

(i) Donald, Thane of Cawdor, 1295; (2) William, Thane of Cawdor, 
who obtained a charter of the thanage from Robert I. in 1310; (3) William, 
Thane of Cawdor about 1350 ; (4) Andrew, Thane of Cawdor, who was 
enfeft in the Sheriffship and Constabulary of Nairn and half of Dunmaglass, 
and died about 1405 — said to have been murdered by Sir Alexander Raite 
of Raite; (5) Donal, Thane of Cawdor, served heir to his father in 1405, 
and acquired the other half of Dunmaglass, of Moy, near Forres, and Little 
Urchany; it is mentioned in the family genealogy that a daughter of Thane 
Donald married John de la Hay (vide the letter given above from Thomas 
Dunbar, Earl of Murray, to John de la Hay). 

According to tradition, Schaw Macintosh (vide the preceding Section 
Vni.) married Helen, dau. of the second Thane of Cawdor, and thus was 
obtained the first half of Dunmaglass. Urchanybeg was purchased from 
the Bishop of Moray in 1421. 

The office of Sheriff of the shire, and Constable of the Castle, carried 
with it considerable emoluments as well as local influence, and the family 
at an early date possessed the lands Balmakeith, Millbank, the Gallowslands, 
and the Skateraw, and had a charter to the lands formerly belonging to 
Fergus the Dempster. 

William succeeded his father Donald and was 6th Thane of Cawdor. 
Looking out for a good match for William, his son, he found that living at 
the old Castle of Dunbeath on the Caithness coast, on the Moray Firth, was 
an untitled, but very wealthy Chief, Alexander Sutherland, whose wife was 
a daughter of Donald, Lord of the Isles. 

The hand of his youngest daughter, Mariot, was sought, and she mar- 
ried the young Thane, William. 

Marjory of Cawdor, one daughter of this marriage, married Philorth 
Fraser; Marion, another daughter, married three years later, Hugh Allan- 
son Macintosh; a third daughter married William Dallas, heir of Budgate 
and, we believe, General Meade of the Battle of Gettysburg, was a descend- 
ant of this pair. 

Mariot or Marian Sutherland, wife of William, Thane of Cawdor, died 
leaving him sons, but the eldest, William, was weak in body, and became 



Till'. I-.\Mir,V OF HAY 6i 

Vicar of Barrivan, preferring ihe church to secular life with its struggles. 
William, the Thane, then fixed the succession of the title upon John, a 
natural son afterward legitimated, who had married Isabella Rose, daughter 
of the Baron of Kilravock. 

Of tliis marriage of John to Isabella Rose were born Janet and Muriel, 
and the latter while a child was carried ofif under romantic circumstances 
and the ward of her marriage was granted to Argyle, and on the completion 
of her twelfth yeai she was married to Sir John Campbell, son of the Earl 
of Argyle; they were married 1510. 

Thus the Thanage of Cawdor passed from the old Thanes to the family 
of Campbell. 

It is interesting to note here in passing the origin of the poem "Glenara," 
by the Scotch poet, Campbell : — 

M'Lean of Duart, an inhuman wretch, had married Lady Elizabeth 
Campbell, a sister of the above mentioned Sir John Campbell, the new 
Thane of Cawdor. Through some mad freak of temper, M'Lean took the 
lady out to sea^ and left her on a barren rock in the ocean, covered at high 
tide, and expected her to perish there. At the point of death, she was 
rescued by a passing boat. Sir John's indignation led him to avenge the 
insult by following M'Lean to Edinburgh, and slaying him in his bed. 
Remission for the slaughter under such exceptional provocation was granted 
by King James V., and Sir John and Lady Muriel took up their residence 
at Cawdor, making it their home, visiting only occasionally their possessions 
in Argyle. 

Sir John was succeeded by his son Sir Archibald Campbell, who married 
a daughter of James Grant of Freuchy, and died 155 1 leaving a son John, 
who married Mary Keith, daughter of the Earl Mareschal, and sister of the 
Countess of Argyle. In consequence of this marriage he removed to shores 
of Argyle, where later he met with a tragic end. 

John de la Hay died A.D. 1431, and, by his wife, a daughter of Donald, 
5th Thane of Cawdor, left a son : — 

i. William de la Hay, whose history follows : 



l^entf) feneration 



P^P^^ILLIAM DE LA HAY OF LOCHLOY, PARK^ 
^ W 7^ ^^^ DOLAS, was a son of John de la Hay, Lord 
^ \A/ ^ c£ Lochloy, by his spouse, a daughter of Donald,. 
^ ^ Fifth Thane of Cawdor, "his luffit cousin." (His- 

^^^^^ tory of Nairnshire and Mrs. Cumming-Bruce in 
"The Bruces and the Cummings.") 

He held charters bearing date 143 1. Thomas Cumyn of 
Altyre redeemed the lands of Dolas from him in 1460, and an 
Indenture of Friendship between them bears date 22 July 1476. ^ 

He probably married a daughter of the house of Cumyn, by 
whom he had Dolas, and died 1480, leaving two sons: — 

i. John de Hay, history follows in Sect'on XL 

ii. Alexander Hay of Mayne, living 1484, had a son : — William Hay 
of Mayne, living 1541, who had two sons : — John Hay of Mayne, 
living 1544; and William Hay of Mayne, who d. 1558, leaving a 
younger son, William, d. 1598, and an elder son : — James Hay 
of Mayne, d. 1561, leaving a son : — William Hay of Mayne, liv- 
ing 1590- 1618, who left issue: — 
i. James, living 1618; ii. Francis, living 1618; iii. Alexander. 



62 




(Clebentf) (Reiteration 



OHN THE HAY OF LOCHLOY AND PARK 
was the eldest son of William the Hay, and suc- 
ceeded his father to the lands of Park and Loch- 
loy in 1480. (These lands of Park were in Nairn- 
shire west of Auldearn.) It does not appear whom 
he married, but by his spouse he left sons : — 

i. William I lay of Park and Lochloy, history follows in Sec. XII. 

ii. Alexander Hay, living in 151 1, 
iii. Andrew Hay, living in 151 1. 

The Hays of Park and Lochloy must not be confounded with 
the later Hay of Park. 

The latter Baronets of Park were created 1663, and descended 
from Alexander Hay of Dalgetty, descending from the Hays of 
Erroll, and these last lands of Park are in Wigtonshire, and were 
of the abbey lands of Glenluce. In this line is Sir Lewis John 
Erroll Hay, 9th Bart., who has most kindly supplied the writer 
with much valuable information, copied from his father's family 
chart which, he states, was once borrowed by the Countess of 
Erroll to settle a point m dispute with the Marchioness of Tweed- 
dale, and was photographed in London at that time. For this 
courtesy of his kinsman, the writer makes grateful acknowledgment. 



Ctoelftf) feneration 




Ipp^^ILLIAAl THE HAY OF PARK AND LOCHLOY^ 

W^ was the eldest son of John the Hay of Park and 
OT Lochloy, and held charters dated 1 509-151 1. His 
^^ name occurs in the following solemn settlement, by 
afbiter, of the church lands of Croy: — 

"At Nairne the thretene day of August the 
yer of God ane thousand four hundredth nynte and twa yeres, we, 
Alexander Dunbar of Vestfield, James Dunbar of Cromnoch,. 
Knychtis, Adam Gordon chantar, Wilyame Winchester treasurer 
of the cathedral kirk of Murray," etc. 

Also from an Indenture made at Elgin 10 May 1492 between 
William, Thane of Calder and John his son with Hugh Rose, Baron 
of Kilravock, the following names are taken : — "Alexander Innes, 
Alexander Stewart, Chancellor of Murra, Master Thomas Grant 
official of Murra, William Hay of Lochloy." 

A royal writ of this period begins as follows : — "James, by 
the grace of God, King of the Scots, till our Sheriffs of Elgin 
and Fore, and thri deputies, and to our lovitt John Chene, William 
Hay of the Park, John Paterson, Andra Ferquharson, and Alex- 
ander Urquhart, ouer Sheriffs in that part ****** 
given under our signet in Edinburgh xvi. dai of May and of ouer 
reigne the first yere. — Ex deliberatione dominorum concilii." 

The following is accounted an important document in North 
Country History, and relates to an Inquest of 11 Feb. 143 1, un- 
dertaken at the instance of Alexander Stewart, son of the Wolf of 
Badenoch, for ascertaining former tenure of lands. 

It is given for the mention it makes of John, the father of 
William the Hay, and for that of other names : — 

"Ad quam declarationem electi fuerunt et jurati isti sub- 
scripti: Walterus de Innes de eodem, Donaldus de Calder, Hugo 
Rose de Balnagown, Alexander M'Cullagh, Johannes Hay de 



64 



THE FAMILY OF 1 1 AY 65 

Lochquhloy, Waltenis Andrec, W'ileliiius CaKlcr, Johannes Willelm 
de I'othncs, Nicholaus Man, Laurcncius Curran, Gaufridus 
Schrres, Ang-usius IloraUli, Andreas Grame, Dauid Lommysdcn, 
Thomas de Chishohn, W'illehiiiis Mykill, et Hugo Ade." — Copied 
from "The Family of l\ih-avock," puhHshcd by the "Spalding Club." 

William Hay of Lochloy and Park married Katherine Urqu- 
hart of Cromartie". /This nuirriage is given in "The Bruces and the 
Cummings," by Mrs. Cunmiing-Bruce, of whom they were an- 
cestors ; it is also given by Mr. George Bain, Historian of Nairn- 
shire, in correspondence with the writer. 

The following is an extract from Mr. George Bain's letter, 
and will serve as an introduction to the distinguished pedigree of 
Katherine L'rquhart Hay, given presently : — 

Nairn, North Britain, 17th April 1907. 
"Dear Professor Colcock, 

"I am in receipt of your favor with remittance to cover cost of 'The 
History of Nairnshire' and hope it has arrived safely, as it was posted at 
the same time as 'Lord Brodie.' ****** i shall be glad to assist 
you in connection with the Hays of Lochloy. Some of the information you 
ask for will require some searching, but I purpose sending you notes just as 
I get them ready, without waiting till I have the whole finished. It may 
interest you to have a view of Inshoch Castle, the last residence of the 
Hays of Lochloy, which I enclose. 

"I am glad Mrs. Colcock is pleased with 'Lord Brodie.' The old gen- 
tleman, I think, has never got justice done him — he is bitterly attacked for 
his moderation from opposite sides, but after all he was sound in the faith, 
and right in the main. 

"I enclose a few notes which may be of use to you. You may depend 
upon their accuracy. 

"Yours faithfully, 

(Signed) "George Bain." 

Mr. Bain's notes on Katherine Urquhart : — 

"Katherine Urquhart of Cromartie was wife of William Hay of Loch- 
loy (1509). 

The Urquharts of Cromartie have been traced up to .Adam and Eve by 
Sir Thomas Urquhart, without a single break in the genealogy! Sir Thomas 
was a famous scholar, a friend of the 'Admirable Crichton/ but a most 
eccentric character. 

The first Urquhart of Cromartie known to history, however, is Adam — 
Sir Thomas is right in this. The following is the state of the case accord- 
ing to the documents :— In the 13th century, the family of Mowat (then 
de Monte Alto) were in possession of Cromartie, but early in the following 
century the estate had accrued to King Robert the Bruce, who granted 



66 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Cromarty to Sir Hugh Ross, eldest son of William, Earl of Ross, in 1315, 
and by him it was afterward, in the reign of David Bruce (1329-77). given 
to Adam de Urquhart. 

"There are two places which bear the name of Urquhart — a church 
foundation in Moray and a large estate in Inverness. These (Glen Urqu- 
hart) with a famous old Castle on Loch Ness. 

"The accepted account is that one Conacher, a mighty warrior, received 
the territories of Urquhart and its castle from the King as a reward for 
services in the war of 1160. He is said to be an Irishman of the royal 
house of Ulster, and the families of Forbes, Mackay, and Urquhart, look 
back to him as their common ancestor. 

"Adam of Cromartie was descended from Conacher the Great's third 
son; his son John; his son William; his son William; and his son Alexander 
of Cromartie, Sheriff of Cromarty in 1501, father of Katherine, who married 
William Hay of Lochloy; his other daughter, Agnes, married Rose of Kil- 
ravock (from whom the family of Rose m Charleston, S. C). 

"The Urquharts had large estates in Aberdeenshire, and are said to have 
had seven mansion houses. They were, many of them, leading personages 
in Church and State in Scotland." 

We shall now give on the authority of Burke's Peerage. 

Htn^agp of 'Kntiitvim Mrquljari 

1. William Urquhart of Cromarty, Hereditary Sheriff of that county, 

married ist Lilias, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross, by his 
wife, the Princess Maud, daughter of King Robert the Bruce 
by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Aylmer de Burgh, 
Earl of Ulster. (1314) 

2. Adam Urquhart of Cromarty, their son, held charters from Wil- 

liam, Earl of Ross, for lands of Inch, and Rory, in Rosshire, in 
1338, and a charter in 1357, from David Bruce, for the Sheriff- 
dom of Cromarty, and married Brigidia, daughter of Sir Patrick 
Fleming of Biggar, ancestor of the Earls of Wigton, by his 
wife, the youngest daughter of Sir Simon Eraser of Oliver 
Castle, the patriot, whose other daughter married Sir Gilbert 
Hay from whom descend the Earls of Tweeddale. 

3. John Urquhart of Cromarty, his son and heir, living in 1368, 

married Agnes, daughter of Sir Alexander Ramsay, ancestor of 
the Earls of Dalhousie — vide the ist part of this book, reign of 
David II., for an account of Sir Alexander, who was starved 
to death in the dungeon of William Douglas of Liddesdale. 

4. Sir William Urquhart of Cromarty, eldest son and heir, was 

knighted by Robert III., married a daughter of Sir Alexander, 
1st Lord Forbes, by his wife the Lady Elizabeth Douglas ( who 
married 2d David Hay of Yester), daughter of George Douglas, 
1st Earl of Angus, by his spouse the Princess Mary, daughter 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 67 

of King Robert III. (Vide the Line of Forbes which follows 
presently.) ( M48) 

5. Alexander Urquhart of Cromarty, second son, made Hereditary 

Sheriff of Cromarty, had a charter under the Great Seal from 
James IV. "Tcrrarum de Fclthar," etc., dated 25 Aug. 1503, 
married Katherine, daughter of Sir James Ogilvie of Deskford. 
(Vide tlio Line of Oglivic which is given presently). 

6. Katherine Urquhart, daughter, married William the Hay, men- 

tioned at the head of this section ; and they were ancestors of 
Colonel Ann Hawks Hay. 
Sir William Urquhart of paragraph 4 above, married a daughter of 
Sir Alexander, First Lord Forbes ; we now give his pedigree : — 

ICiiif of Ifarbta 

1. The name is derived from the Lands of Forbes, Douside, Aber- 

deenshire. 

John of Forbes was living in the reign of William the Lion. 

2. Furgus of Forbes, his son, held charters in 1236, from Alexander, 

Earl of Buchan. 

3. Alexander of Forbes, son and heir, held charters to the same 

lands from Alexander III., A.D. 1271. 

4. John of Forbes, son and heir, besides the lands of Forbes, which 

he held from the Crown, held charters for Edinbanchirg and 
Craiglogy from the Earl of Mar, and was Sheriff of Aberdeen. 
He married Margaret. 

5. Sir John Forbes, son and heir, v.as knighted circa 1390, and died 

1406; he married' Elizabeth, daughter of Kennedy of Denure, 
ancestor of the noble house of Cassilis. 

6. Alexander, First Lord Forbes, eldest son and heir, was made a 

Lord of Parliament in 1442, and died A.D. 1448. 

He married 1423, Elizabeth, daughter of George Douglas, ist 
Earl of Angus (vide the Line of Douglas, given presently). 

7. A daughter married Sir William L^rquhart of Cromarty, and from 

them descends Cplonel Hay. (Vide paragraph 4 in the line 
of Katherine Urquhart, given above.) 
Sir Alexander Urquhart of Cromarty, father of Katherine Urquhart, 
who married William the Hay (vide paragraph 5 of her lineage) married 
Katherine. daughter of Sir James Ogilvie of Deskford. 
We shall now give : — 

CiiiF nf (^ijilutr 
(Consult Burke, Edition for 1853, under "Seafield.") 
I. Sir Walter Oglivic, Knight of Auchlcven, 2d son of the High 
Treasurer of Scotl.nnd, by Isabel Durward. heiress of Lintrai- 
thin, obtained permission from the crown in 1455 to fortify his 
Castle of Findlater; he died 1473. 



68 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

He married Margaret Sinclair, only daughter of Sir John 
Sinclair of Deskford and Findlater, who raised the banner of 
the dying Douglas, at the Battle of Otterburn in 1338, the 
brother of George, ist Earl of Angus. 

2. Sir James Ogilvie, Knight of Deskford and Findlater, son of Sir 

Walter, married Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Innes 
of Innes, and died in 1510. 

3. Sir James Ogilvie, son, died 1505, in his father's lifetime. He 

married Agnes, daughter of George, 2d Earl of Huntly. 

4. Katherine Ogilvie, daughter of Sir James, granddaughter of 

George, 2d Earl of Huntly, married Alexander Urquhart, Her- 
editary Sheriff of Cromarty, who held a royal charter dated 
1503. 

(Vide paragraph 5 in the "Line of Katherine Urquhart." 
These were ancestors of Colonel Hay.) 
Under "The Line of Forbes," paragraph 6, it will be noted that Alex- 
ander, First Lord Forbes, married Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of George 
Douglas, First Earl of Angus. 

We shall now give her pedigree to be found in the following : — 

HittP of SnuglaH 

"'In the story of Scotland,' says Mr. Froude, 'weakness is nowhere; 
power, energy, and will are everywhere' ; and this national vigour, deter- 
mined will, and indomitable resolution seem to have culminated in the 
'Doughty Douglases,' 

"Their stalwart, and tough physical frames, and the strong, resolute, 
unbending character of such men as 'William the Hardy,' 'Archibald the 
Grim,' and 'Archibald, Bell the Cat,' types of their race, eminently fitted 
them to be 'premier peers,' — leaders of men. From the War of Independ- 
ence down to the era of the Reformation, no other family played such a 
conspicuous part in the affairs of Scotland as the Douglases. 

"They intermarried no less than eleven times with the royal family of 
Scotland, and once with that of England. They enjoyed the privilege of 
leading the van of the Scottish army in battle, of carrying the crown at 
the coronation of the sovereign, and of giving the first vote in Parliament. 
A Douglas received the last words of Robert the Bruce, a Douglas spoke 
the epitaph of John Knox. The Douglases were celebrated in the prose 
of Froissart and the verse of Shakespeare. They have been sung by antique 
Barbour and by Walter Scott, by the minstrels of Otterburn and by Robert 
Burns. ****** They contributed greatly to the crowning victory 
of Bannockburn. They sent two hundred gentlemen of their name, with 
the heir of their earldom, to die at Flodden. There was a time when they 
could raise thirty thousand men, and they were for centuries the bulwark 
of the Scottish border against 'our auld enemies of England.' * * * * 
* * They have gathered their laurels on many a bloody battlefield of 
France, where they held the rank of Princes, and in Spain, and in the 
Netherlands, as well as in England and Scotland. 



THE FA.MIL^' ()]' HAY 69 

"They have produced nun nut only of doughty cliaraclcr, but of the 
gentle and chivalric type, also, like the 'Good Sir James,' and the William 
Douglas, who married the Princess Egidia, justifying the exclamation of the 
autlior of the 'Huke of tlie Howlat' — 

'O Douglas, Douglas, 
Tender and true !' 

"The cradle of the race was in Douglasdale, but their origin is hid In 
obscurity. 'We do not know them,' says Godscroft, 'in the fountain but in 
the stream; not in the root but in the stem; for we know not who was the 
first mean man that raised liimsclf above the vulgar.' ****** jt 
is alleged by Chalmers that the founder of the family came from Flanders 
about the year 1147, and was named Thcolbald the Fleming, and received 
from Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, a grant of lands on Douglas Water (Dhu- 
Glas, the "Dark Stream') from which the family derived its name. Wyntoun 
is of the opinion that the Douglases had the same origin as the Murrays, 
cither by lineal descent or by collateral branch, as they have the same arms, 
the same stars set in the same manner. Through the innate energy of their 
character they seem to have sprung at a single bound to the first rank of 
Scottish nobles." — Dr. Taylor in "The Great Historic Families of Scot- 
land." 

We now give Colonel Hay's Douglas ancestors as given in "The House 
of Douglas," by Mrs. Cumming-Bruce in her book, "The Bruces and the 
Cummings," page 529: 

1. Archibald, 4th Lord of Douglas, tcstibus to charters, died 1240. 

Married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Crau- 
ford, by whom two sons : — Sir William, his heir ; and Andrew, 
by some said to be the ancestor of the Earls of Morton. 

2. William, 5th Lord of Douglas, son and heir, on Palm Sunday, at 

Edinburgh, 1240, signs an Indenture for the marriage of his 
son Hugh with the daughter of the Lord of Abernethy, settling 
on them all his lands, and furthermore, those "quae sunt in 
calumnia inter me et herides Johannis Crauforde." He died 
1276. 

He married Martha, daughter of Duncan, and sister of Niel, 
Earl of Carrick (1240-50), and aunt of Marjorie, Countess of 
Carrick, who married Robert de Brus, and was mother of King 
Robert. 

They left two sons : Hugh, 6th Lord of Douglas, who married 
Marjorie, daughter of Alexander and sister of Hugh, Lords 
of Abernethy d.s.p. and William. (This makes a fourth line 
of descent of Colonel Hay from the family of Bruce.) 

3. William the Hardy, 7th Lord of Douglas, 2d son, succeeded his 

brother Hugh, who d.s.p.; in 1288, he imprisoned William of 
Abernethy in Douglas Castle for the murder of Duncan, Earl 
of Fife; he died in York after seven years of captivity, having 
been betrayed by his English wife. 



70 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

He married ist Lord Keith's sister, by whom he had two 
sons : i. Sir James, 8th Lord of Douglas, surnamed "The Good," 
the friend of Bruce, killed in Spain on his way to the Holy- 
land with the heart of Bruce (A.D. 1330-31) ; ii. Hugh, 9th 
Lord, survived his brother James for nine or ten years, re- 
signed in favor of his nephew William, son of his half-brother 
Archibald, in 1341-42; iii. Archibald. 
4. Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway, Regent of Scotland from 
March to July, 1333, when he was killed at Halidon Hill. He 
defeated the Balliols at Annan in 1332. 

He married Dornagilla, daughter of John Cumyn of Badenoch 
by Mary of Galloway, by whom two sons and a daughter, viz. : 
t. William, ist Earl of Douglas; ii. Archibald, Lord of Gallo- 
way; iii. Alianore, married Alexander, 8th Earl of Carrick, son 
of Edward Bruce. Alexander was killed with his father-in- 
law, Archibald Douglas, at Halidon Hill. 

John Comyn of Badenoch was styled "John the Black 
Comyn," and v/as a Competitor for the Crown in 1292, v/hen 
he gave in his pedigree; he married Marjorie, a sister to John 
Balliol; he was the son of John the Red Comyn (No. i) by 
his wife Marian, by some the daughter of the Lord of Galloway 
and sister of Devorgoile, by others the daughter of The Lord 
of the Isles. 

John the ist Red Comyn was the 3d son of William Comyn, 
Great Justiciar of Scotland in 1209, and ist Earl of Buchan, by 
his 1st wife Matilda Urquhart, daughter of Coetisa, daughter 
of Banquo. (This is a 2d line of descent for Colonel Hay from 
William ist Earl of Buchan, and also one from Banquo, and 
four from the Emperor Charlemagne. Vide "The Line of 
Comyn," Section VL) 

Archibald Douglas, the 2d son of Archibald the Regent, was 
made Lord of Galloway after the death of Thomas de Brus 
A.D. 1380, by King David H. ; he left no legitimate heir, but 
William the Black Douglas was his natural son, and for his 
great worth and bravery was given with the lordship of Niths- 
dale by King Robert H. his beautiful daughter Egidia, by whom 
he left an only daughter Egidia, who married Henry, Earl of 
Orkney. His male line extinct. In France William the Black 
Douglas was Prince of Ranskin and Duke of Spruce. 

Alianore or Eleanor m. ist Alexander of Brus, 8th Earl of 
Carrick, and had an only dau. Alianore who m. Sir William 
Cunningham, and had a grant in 1361, of the earldom of 
Carrick. 

Alianore m. 2d Sir James of Sandilands, who was given by 
her brother William Douglas the barony of West Calder ; her 
son and heir, S'r James Sandilands, m. Joanna, dau. of King 
Robert II., the lords Torphichen being their lineal descendants. 



THE FAiMILY Ol' 11 AY 71 

Alianore m. 3d William of Touris ; ni. 4tli nuiican W'alys of 
Sundruin and m. 5th and last I)y dispensation (1376) Sir Patrick 
Hepburn of llailes. 

5. A. D. 1342. — William, 1st I'.arl of Douglas, and 5lh Lord of 
Douglas, was sent as a hostage to England for the King, at 
whicli time he is first styled Earl of Douglas. 

By some authorities he is said to have married three times, 
by others only once. He, however, styled Margaret Stewart 
"My Wife," and it is extremely probable they were married. 

He m. 1st ante 1343, Margaret of Mar, who, on the death of 
her brother Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar (A. D. 1377), became 
Countess of Mar and Lady Garioch, by whom he had James 
Douglas, the hero of Otterburn, where he fell A. D. 1388, and 
Isabel, afterward Countess of Mar. 

It is said that Earl William divorced this lady, who m. 2d 
Sir John Swinton of Swinton, and that the Earl m. 2d Mar- 
garet, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and March, by whom 
he had Archibald the Grim, who succeeded his brother James 
as Earl of Douglas in 1388. The Earl of Douglas m. 3d (and 
with doubtful legality) Margaret Stewart, daughter of the Earl 
of Angus (who died of the plague 1357-58) and widow of the 
Earl of Mar who d. 1377, by whom he had a son : — 

6. George Douglas, ist Earl of Angus, youngest son of William, ist 
Earl of Douglas, by his 3d wife. 

On the 24 May 1397, he married the Princess Mary, grand- 
daughter of King Robert II., daughter of the king's son later 
Robert HI., by his wife Annabella Drummond, daughter of Sir 
John Drummond of Stobhall. (The Drummonds were cele- 
brated for their good looks.) Mary was the full sister of 
David, the imfortunate Duke of Rothsay, whose sad fate is 
portrayed in "The Fair Maid of Perth," and of James, later 
King James I., of Scotland, the ablest of the Stewart sover- 
eigns, who was murdered. 

7. The Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of George, 1st Earl of 
Angus, by his wife the Princess Mary, daughter of King Robert 
III. and his Queen, Annabella Drummond, married in 1423, 
Alexander, the First Lord Forbes. (Vide Line of Forbes.) 

8. The Lady Forbes, daughter, married Sir William C^rquhart of 
Cromarty, Sheriff of Cromarty. (Vide Line of Urquhart.) 

9. Katherine Urquhart, daughter, married William the Hay. (Mr. 
George Bain, Historian of Nairnshire, and "The Braces and 
Cumyns," p. 619.) 

William the Hay by his wife Katherine Urquhart of Cromartie had a 
son:— ("The Bruces and Cumyns," p. 619). 

i. John Hay of Lochloy and Park, history follows, in Sect. XIII. 



72 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

g»trmart-SarlB of Angus 

George Douglas, ist Earl of Angus, married 3d Margaret, widow of 
Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar, and daughter of Thomas Stewart, 2d Earl of 
Angus in the Stewart line. We shall give this line: — 

"Sir John Stewart, who fell at Falkirk with Sir John the Graham in 
July, 1298, was the uncle of Walter, who married Marjorie Bruce. Sir 
John married Margaret, only daughter and heir of Sir Alexander Bonkyl 
of Bonkyl, by whom he had seven sons, and an only daughter who married 
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland. 

By some it is said that his eldest son. Sir Alexander Stewart, was 
created Earl of Angus by Robert the Bruce, but in England the Umphra- 
villes were still so entitled, but 

1. John Stewart, son of Sir Alexander, is the first Stewart whose 

name appears as a witness when Randolph was 'custos regni 
Scotiae' as Earl of Angus, Lord of Bonkyl and Abernethy, 
having married in 1329, by special dispensation, Margaret, eldest 
daughter of Sir Alexander de Abernethy. John had a sister 
Isabel married ist to Donald, Earl of Mar, by whom she had 
Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar, and Margaret, who succeeded her 
brother and married William, ist Earl of Douglas. 

2. Thomas Stewart, 2d Earl of Angus, only son, married Margaret, 

only daughter of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin. He assisted 
in the taking of Berwick in 1352; but suspected of conspiracy 
by David II. was imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle, where he d. 
of the plague, 1321. 

3. Lady Margaret, daughter, married ist her cousin Thomas 13th 

Earl of Mar, who d.s.p. in 1377; she married 2d William, ist 
Earl of Douglas, by whom : 

4. George Douglas, ist Earl of Angus, on the resignation of his 

mother when he was seven years old. 

He married, at the age of sixteen, Mary, daughter of Robert 
III., as has been already set forth. 

5. The Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter, married Alexander, ist 

Lord Forbes, in 1423. 

6. Lady Forbes, daughter, married Sir William Urquhart of Cro- 

marty. 

7. Katherine Urquhart, daughter, married William the Hay, Lord of 

Lochloy and Park, by whom : — 

i. John Hay of Lochloy and Park, history follows in 
Section XIII. 

Under the preceding table — The Stewart-Earls of Angus — it 
is shown in paragraph 3, that Thomas Stewart married Margaret, 
daughter of Sir William Sinclair (St. Clair) of Roslin. This 
marriage may also be seen in the 1853 edition of Burke, p. 152, 



THE FAMILY OF HAY y,^ 

where is given the lineage of Sir William St. Clair, and it is there 
stated that he married Isahcl, daughter of iMalise Earl of .Strat- 
hearn (he was 7th Earl) by his 2>^\ wife Matilda, daughter of 
Magnus, Earl of Orkney and Caithness. (Yide "Earldom of 
Strathcarn" of this book, Section H., paragraph 7.) 

Matilda's Norse origin from "Earl Rognvald, The Wise and 
Mighty" is full of interest and we give it in the next table. Earl 
Rognvald was also an ancestor of Colonel Hay through William 
the Conqueror descended from Rollo his son, and also an ancestor 
of Colonel Hay through the line of King Robert Bruce — therefore 
this early Scandinavian Count Rognvald should possess peculiar 
interest to our readers — who are trebly his descendants. The 
lines of Bruce and William the Conqueror will be given later — we 
shall now present the Norse origin of Matilda, wife of Sir William 
St. Clair of Roslin circa 1318, which is to be found in the fol- 
lowing : — 

EarI^^m of (Drknrg anft (EaUhnraH 

(Taken principally from "The Bruccs and Cumyns.") 

"It is to Scandinavia and its sagas we must look for the history of our 
Pagan ancestors and their conversion to Christianity. 

"The Scalds who wrote the sagas were mostly Icelanders ; but from 
the day of Harald Haarfager, families had become so dispersed that 
hereditary interests and the rights to property in Iceland and Orkney were 
involved in what w-as transpiring in Northumberland and Norway, as well 
as at Dromtheim. 

"The Odiial or Udal Holding was the only tenure of lands recognized 
in Scandinavian kingdoms. It was transmitted by Odin's followers to their 
offspring as the dearest of their free institutions. 

"It was a tacit entail upon the primal occupant and his heirs, inalienable 
while one udal-bron descendant should live to claim it — or to reclaim it 
from the stranger, if alienated in his absence or childhood. The sagas, 
therefore, were far from being fairy tales, as some appear to suppose, but 
were registers of public and private events, by means of which each man 
might claim his rights on his return from distant lands. Let us then refer 
to the Saga of Harald Haarfager: — 

"King Harald Haarfager, or the Fair-haired, succeeded when he was 
ten years of age, to the dominions of his father. Halfdan the Black. His 
mother. Queen Ragnhilda, daughter of Sigurt Hiort, a king in Ringerige, 
had a brother, 'Guttorm,' who was Harald's guardian. Harald sent to ask 
Gyda, daughter of King Eric of Hordaland, in marriage, but she refused 
unless he made himself king of all Norway. ****** Upon this 
Harald vowed to become sole king, and, with Guttorm's help, he became so. 



74 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"Harald fought and conquered in many battles and over each district 
he set an earl, in place of the king he had subdued. 

"At last, after the battle of Haversfiord, A. D. 885, he became sole 
king of Norway, and made Drontheim his capital. Many of the discontents 
fled and it was then Iceland and the Faroe Isles were discovered and 
peopled. There was also a great resort to Shetland, and many took to viking 
in the West Sea. In winter they were in the Orkneys and the Hebrides, 
and in summer they marauded in Norway, and did great damage. There- 
fore one summer King Harald sailed with his fleet right out into the West 
Sea. First he came to Shetland and slew all the vikings who could not 
save themselves by flight ; then southward, to the Orkneys, and cleared 
them of all vikings, then to the Hebrides, and slew many vikings who had 
men at arms under them. He then plundered, far and wide, in Scotland 
itself, and had a battle there. Afterward he went to the Isle of Man, but 
the people had all fled. 

"In this war fell 'Ivar,' eldest son of *Earl Rognvald. Earl Rognvald 
was the son of *Eistein Glumre, and was Harald's greatest friend. When 
the kings were conquered, Rognvald was made Earl of North and South 
More or Moeri, and afterward of Raumdal also ; and it was at a feast at 
Rognvald's house in Moeri that Harald received the name of 'Haarfager,' 
Fair-haired, having taken a bath and had his hair cut and combed, after 
ten years, for he had taken a vow not to do so till he had conquered all 
Norway; so Earl Rognvald called him 'The Fair-haired,' and all men 
thought it just. 

"Now when Ivar fell. King Harald gave Earl Rognvald the Orkney 
and Shetland Islands as a compensation for the loss of his son ; but Rogn- 
vald immediately gave both to his brother 'Sigurt,' who remained there; and 
Harald, before sailing eastward, gave him the earldom. ****** 

"Earl Rognvald was the son of Eistein Glumre, who was the son of 
*Thebotan, Duke of Sleswick and Stermace A. D. 721, who fled into Norway 
by reason of the Danish tyranny, and married *'Jocunda,' daughter of 
Hunheafter, King of North and South Moeri. 

"Thebotan married second *Ascrida, daughter of Rognvald, son of 
Olaus, King of Norway, whose sons were : i, *Rognvald ; 2, Sigurt. 

"Sigurt, therefore, became the first Jarl of Orkney and Shetland, and 
soon made himself very powerful, conquering Caithness, Ross, Moray, and 
the Sudrlands. Elgin is said to have been founded by him and called after 
his favorite general, 'Helgy.' ****** We are not told how long 
Sigurt held it, nor the date of his death. He died at Burghead — the 
Phoroton Strapeton of the Romans, the 'Broch' of the Danes and Nor- 
wegians — after a great battle in which he slew his opponent, the Scottish 
earl, 'Melbridg' (probably the grandfather of Macbeth) ; but the dead man's 
projecting tooth did what his armed hand could not do, inflicted a wound 
on Sigurt's leg as he carried off the head slung to his saddlebow, and 
caused his death. 



THE FAMILY OF 11 AV 75 

"Earl Sigurt married Jocunda, daughter of Olaus the White, King of 
the Danes in Dublin. With her brother, 'Thornstcin the Red,' he entered 
into a partnership, and they overran Scotland, and took possession of all 
north of tlie Oichel River. 

"Gulthorm, Sigurt's only son, succeeded, but dying within a year with- 
out heirs, the Earldom returned to Earl Rognvald, who was still alive. 

"And here we may remark that although llarald had appointed sixteen 
earls in Norway — one over each district — when he suppressed the small 
kings, tlioy appear to have been merely collectors of his 'scatts' or land tax, 
with the exception of 'Rognvald, the Wise and Mighty,' whose family were 
the only hereditary nobles under the Norwegian crown exercising a kind of 
feudal power. The Earls of Orkney of this line became almost independent, 
only paying military service and a nominal quit-rent when obliged to do so. 

"Ilallad, or Halloden, was next sent by his father, Earl Rognvald, to 
be Jarl of Orknej', but finding the vikings troublesome, soon returned to 
Norway and took up his udal rights again. When Earl Rognvald heard 
this he was ill pleased, and said his sons were very unlike their forefathers. 
Then said his son 'Eynor,' 'I have enjoyed little affection or honor amongst 
you, and if you will give me force enough, I will go west ; and I promise 
you, at any rate, what will please you, that you shall never see me again.' 
So Earl Rognvald gave Eynor his son a ship fully equipped, and he sailed 
for the West Sea in harvest. 

"When he came to the Orkney Isles, two vikings, 'Thorar Treaskeg' 
and 'Kalf Sturfa,' were in his way with two vessels, and he attacked and 
slew them both, and slew the vikings. He was therefore Earl, and a mighty 
man o'er those seas. ****** He was called 'Turf Eynor' be- 
cause he taught the people to cut turf for fuel, there being no wood in 
Orkney. 

"Besides Ivar, who was killed, Earl Rognvald had five sons : — Thorer, 
who became his successor in Moeri ; Hallad or Halloden; *Eynor; Hrollong; 
Rollo or Rolf Ganger, the famous conqueror of Normandy, whose mother 
was *Hilda, daughter of *Rolf Naefia. Earl Rognvald's daughter Hilda 
married Sigurt Rice. King Harald's son. Meanwhile Harald m. Gyda ; and 
it is recorded that when he took to wife 'Ragnhilda the Mighty,' daughter 
of King Eric of Jutland, he put away nine wives. 

"Ragnhilda was the mother of 'Eric Bloodyaxe,' the most beloved son 
of the king, who intended him to be head king over all the others, but the 
people preferred Halfdan the Black. 

"By Asa he had four sons. Gulturm, the eldest, was fostered by Duke 
Gulturm, uncle to the king — who poured water over him, calling him by his 
own name — and Harald gave him the government of Viken when he died 
in his bed at Tonsberg before 893. 

"Halfdan the Black and Halfdan the White were twins, also sons of 
Asa, and Sigfrod also. 

"By Gyda, daughter of Eric king of Hordcland, he had Alaf, his 
daughter Hraerick, Sigfrig, Erode, and Thorgill — the two last were kings 



76 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

in Ireland. 

"By Swanhilda, daughter of Earl Eistein, he had Olaf Geistadalf, Biornr- 
and Ragnor Ryskill. 

"By Ashilda, daughter of King Dagson, he had Dag, Skirra, and 
Ingegred. 

"By Snaefrig, a beautiful Laplander, he had Sigurt Rice, Halfdan 
Haaleg, Gudrod Liome, and Rognvald Rettilbeen. 

"After a time, as the sons of Harald Haarfager grew up (when he was 
about forty years of age, circa 889), they became jealous of the power of 
Earl Rognvald. Two of them, Gudred Liome and Halfdan Haaleg, as- 
sembled forces, surrounded Earl Rognvald's house, and burnt him and sixty 
men in it. Then Gudrod took possession of the earldoms of Moeri and 
Raumdal, but Halfdan took three long ships and sailed for Orkney. King 
Harald assembled a large force and drove his son Gudrod out of Moeri 
and banished him, and installed Thorer the Silent, eldest son of Rognvald 
by Hilda, daughter of Rolf Naefia, in his father's dominions, giving him 
his daughter Alaf Arbot in marriage. 

"When Halfdan Haaleg arrived in Orkney, *Eynor, who was earl 
there, fled at first to the mainland, but soon came back and had a battle 
with Haaleg, who was defeated and took to flight. 

"Eynor and his men lay all night upon the ground and in the morning 
sought the whole island for Haaleg. Then Eynor said, 'What is that I see 
upon the Island of Ronaldsha? Is it a man or a bird? Sometimes it 
raises itself up, and sometimes lies down again.' They went and found it 
was Halfdan, and they took him prisoner and killed him by cutting a spread 
eagle on his back, to avenge the burning of Earl Rognvald. Then Eynor 
sang : — 

"'Where is the spear of Hrollong? Where 

Is stout Rolf Ganger's bloody spear? 

I see them not — yet never fear ! 

For Eynor will not vengeance spare 

Against his father's murderers though 

Hrollong and Rolf are rather slow. 

And silent "Thorer" sits and dreams 

At home beside the mead-bowls' streams.' 

— Laing's Sea Kings of Norway. 

"When the tidings of Haaleg's death reached Norway, his brothers took 
it much to heart, and thought his fate demanded vengeance. So King 
Harald ordered a levy and proceeded to Orkney in great force, and Eynor 
fled to Katenes ; but men and messages passed betwixt them, and at last 
a conference was held, when the Earl submitted to the King's decision that 
he and his people should pay him sixty marks of gold. But Eynor took 
upon himself to pay the whole fine on condition that his people resigned, 
to him their udal rights, which thus became vested in the earl, and so con- 
tinued until the days of Sigurd Lodvison (ante 1014). 



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"When Kinp Harald was seventy years of age, he had another son by 
'Thora,' who came to be king and was called 'Hakon the Good,' or 'Hakon 
Adalstein's fostre' — Athclstane's foster-son — for his father sent him to Eng- 
land to be fostered by King Athelstane, who had him baptised and brought 
him np a Christian. 

"Hakon was much beloved by all good men and especially by Athel- 
stane, who gave him a sword of which the hilt and handle were of gold, and 
the blade so fine that it cut through a millstone to the centre eye; and the 
sword was called 'Quernbitcr.' Mc was the youngest of all King Harald's 
sons, and the only one who escaped being murdered by 'Eric Bloodyaxe.' 

"*Rollo or Rdlf, sometimes called the 'Ganger,' Earl Rognvald's son, 
became a great Viking. He mauraded in England, and in summer landed 
on the coast of Norway and made a cattle foray ; and King Harald hearing 
of it assembled a Thing, and made Rollo an outlaw all over Norway. When 
Rolf Ganger's mother, Hilda, heard this, she hastened to the King to en- 
treat his pardon, but the King was so angry that he would not listen. Then 
she sang : — 

" 'Think'st thou. King Harald, in thine anger 
To drive away my brave Rolf Ganger 
Like a mad wolf from out the land? 
Why banish Naefia's gallant name-son, 
The brother of the brave udal-men? 
Why is thy cruelty so fell ? 
Bethink thee, monarch, it is ill 
With such a wolf at wolf to play. 
Who, driven to the wild woods away, 
May make the King's best deer his prey?' 

Laing's Sea Kings of Norway. 

"Rollo went over the seas, west to the Hebrides, or Sudreyar, our 
Sodor, and Man, and from thence to Valland, where he subdued a great 
earldom, which he peopled with Northmen, and from them it was called 
Normandy." 

It is not possible within the Hinits set for this little vokime 
to reproduce the sagas of the remaining early kings of Scandinavia. 
If our readers are interested in these interesting details relating to 
their Scandinavian origin, they should read Mrs. Bruce Cumming's 
most valuable work, "The Family Records of the Cummings and 
the Bruces" — a standard work, and magazine of genealogical and 
historical lore. 

The author was the wife of the Hon. Charles Lennox Gum- 
ming, M. P., representing Inverness, who assumed the name and 
arms of Bruce by right of his wife. She was a granddaughter 
of James Bruce, the celebrated Abysinnian traveler and author of 



78 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

African Explorations. James Bruce was really James Hay, a great- 
grandson of David Hay of Woodcockdale, and a son of David Hay 
who, marrying Helen Bruce of Kinnaird, assumed her name un- 
der the requirements of her father's will regulating the succession 
of his property. 

Thus J\Irs. Cumming-Bruce was related to Colonel Hay, and 
as their origin was the same in many lines, we shall quote fre- 
quently from her work. 

In the above saga all names starred are progenitors of Colonel 
Hay. In order that our readers — his descendants — may under- 
stand this, the following table is here introduced for their benefit : — 

1. *01aus or Olaf, King of Norway, had two sons, Rognvald and 

Sigurt. 

2. *Rognvald, his son, having married had a daughter : — 

3. *Ascrida, married Thebotan, Duke of Sleswich and Stermace, 

A.D. 721, who had fled from the tyranny of the Danes. They 
had a son : — 

4. *Eistein Glumre, who married and had a son : — 

5. *RognvaId the Mighty, Earl of Moeri, in Norway, and of Orkney, 

he died 890, and had a son : — 

6. *Torf Eynor, Earl of Orkney 910, who had a son : — 

7. *Thorfinn the Skull Splitter, Earl of Orkney 950, who had a son : — 

8. *Hlodver, Earl of Orkney, 870, and had a son : — 

9. *Sigurd the Stout, Earl of Orkney, slain at Contarf 1014; had 

son : — 

10. *Thorfin, the famous Earl of the Orkneys and Caithness, grand- 

son of King Malcolm II. of Scotland, had a son : — 

11. *Paul, Earl of Orkney 1090, had a son: — 

12. *Hakon, Earl of Orkney iioo, had a daughter: — 

13. *Margaret, married Maddad, Earl of Athol circa 1140, had a son: — 

14. *Harald Madadson, Earl of Orkney 1139 to 1206, married 2d a 

daughter of MacHeth, Earl of Ross and Moray, descended from 
Gruach, Lady Macbeth, and also sprung from Somerled, Lord 
of The Isles: By 2d wife he had sons: — Henry, who claimed 
his mother's rights over Ross and Moray ; David ; and John. 

Harald married first AfFreca, a daughter of Duncan, Earl of 
Fife, by whom a son Thorfin, who died a hostage circa 1202. 

15. *John, youngest son of Harald by his second wife, was the last 

Norse Earl of Orkney and Caithness, and died 1231. 

King Alexander II. came from Jedburgh to Caithness and 
after some negotiation, took from him Sutherland, which he 
gave to Hugh Freskyn, whose son William was created first 
Earl of Sutherland in 1232. 



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i6. Daughter of John, last Norse Earl of Orkney and Caithness, 
married *Gilbridc (Gilbert), Earl of Angus; they had a son: — 

17. *Magnus II., acknowledged Jarl of Orkney by Hacon IV. of N'or- 

way, and Earl of Caithness by Alexander II. of Scotland. (1240) 

18. *Gilbride, son of Magnus II., Earl of Caithness, had son: — (1250) 

19. *Magnus III., Earl of Caithness, (1260) 

20. *John, Earl of Caithness, son, married a daughter of Eric, King 

of Norway, (1300) 
21 *Magnus IV., his son, married and had son : — 

22. *Magnus V., last of tlie male line of Angus Earls of Orkney and 

Caithness. He married Sophia, daughter of Ferquhard, Earl of 
Ross, and left an heiress : — 

23. *Matilda, married Malyse, Earl of Strathearn, who became in her 

right Earl of Orkney and Caithness. Besides a son Ferquhard, 
tliey had daughters : — i. Matilda, m. William, Earl of Ross, and 
had a gift of the earldom of Caithness confirmed by David II., 
1362; their line ended in Euphemia, Countess of Ross, m. Sir 
Walter Leslie, and Lady Joanna, m. Sir Alexander Eraser of 
Philorth. ii. Isabel, m. William St. Clair of Roslyn, had Henry, 
whose homage was accepted by Hacon VI. of Norway, 1379, 
Earl of Orkney, iii. Matilda, m. Hugh de Arth and had a son 
Alexander, who in 1375 was styled "Representative of the Earls 
of Strathearn, when he inherited and resigned the earldom of 
Caithness to Robert II., who thereupon granted two charters 
to David Stewart his eldest son by second marriage, iv. Mariot, 
who married Reginald le Cheyne. 

24. *Isabel, daughter of Matilda and Malyse, married S'r William St. 

Clair of Roslyn (vide Burke A.D. 1353, p. 152.) 

25. *Margaret St. Clair of Roslyn, daughter, married Thomas Stew- 

art, 2d Earl of Angus. 

26. *Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter, married 2d William, 1st Earl 

and 5th Lord of Douglas. (Was his 3d wife.) 

27. *George Douglasson, ist Earl of Angus in the Douglas line, mar- 

ried the Princess Mary, daughter of King Robert III. of Scot- 
land. 

28. *The Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter, married Alexander, ist 

Lord Forbes. 

29. *Lady Forbes, daughter, married Sir William Urquhart of Crom- 

arty. 

30. *Kathcrine Urquhart, daughter, married William de la Hay, Lord 

of Lochloy and Park ; by whom : — 

i. *John Hay of Lochloy and Park, whose history follows 
in Section XIII. 



^fjirteentJ) feneration 



^^P^^OHN HAY OF LOCHLOY AND PARK was the 
^ T ^ eldest son of William the Hay, Lord of Lochloy 
^ I ^ and Park, by his spouse Katherine Urquhart, 
^ »/ ^ daughter of Sir William Urquhart, Sheriff of that 
^^^^^ ilk. He died A. D, 1563. John married Isobel 
Dunbar, who died A. D. 1554, and was buried with 
her husband in the graveyard of the cathedral of Auldearn, where 
the inscription of their deaths on a monument in the chancel was 
recently sent us by the Rev. James Bonallo of Auldearn, who mar- 
ried a daughter of the "Dowager Lady Dunbar of Boath." 

The following is an extract from one of the Rev. Mr. Bon- 
allo's letters, with extracts also from a letter written him by Mr. 
Bain : — 

"I duly received yours of the 28th of December and handed it to our 
local historian, Mr. Bain, and I enclose his reply. He knows more about 
these matters than any others of my acquaintance. It turns out strangely 
enough that your wife and my wife — who is daughter of Dowager Lady 
Boath in this parish — are Scotch cousins. I may explain that Sir Alexander 
Dunbar of Boath, to whom you wrote, died some years ago. 

"Yours faithfully, 
"James Bonallo." 

"I have looked over Prof. Colcock's genealogical record and find it 
quite correct in the older period, though I am satisfied the Hays had pos- 
session of Lochloy at a much earlier date than is assigned them. You will 
find my reasons stated at page 206 of my History of Nairnshire, also see 
page 257 for further information. 

1. Bennangefield, or Bennetsfield, is in Ross-shire and now forms 
part of the Rosehaugh estates. The Dunbars of Bennangefield were de- 
scended from Patrick, sixth son of Sir Archibald Dunbar of Westfield, the 
same ancestor as that of Mrs. Bonallo, so that your American correspondent 
and your wife are Scotch cousins. 

2. John, who married Isobel Dunbar in IS54, died in 1563, leaving 
several sons: — John, who succeeded him; David and Alexander of Foynfieid; 
and George, who dying in 1600, left a son Alexander, who married Catherine 
Skene, and became Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat. 

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TlIK I-AMILY Ol- HAY 8i 

The Hays of Kinfauns, of Monckton, of Woodcockdalc, and of Carru- 
T)cr, all derive from the Hays of Lochloy about this period. 

3. David Hay of Lochloy (No. 8 in list) married Marie Rose of Kil- 
ravock in 1605, and when she died it is said no less than 1 10 of her descend- 
ants wore tlien in life." — From Mr. Bain to Mr. Bonallo. 

We now introduce tlio inscriptions sent us by the Rev. James 
Bonallo. copied by him from tlie monument in the cliancel of the 
Cathedral of .Vuldearn, relating- to the foregoing John Hay of 
Lochloy. his son John, and the hitter's son Master Alexander Hay 
of Kinnudic: — 

"This is the sepulcre of Johe Hay of Lochloy, who departed in the yeir 
of God 1563, and of Isobel Dunbar his spous, who diet in the yeair of God 
155- ; as also of Johne Hay of Lochloy, Laird of Park, his son, who diet in 
the moncth of Januar, in the yeair of God 1598, and of Janet Sutherland his 
spous, who diet in the moneth of Januar, in the yeir of God 1587, parentis 
to Master Alexander Hay of Kinnoudie." 

"Monumentum Sepulturae ^L A. H. de Kinnoudie, qui obiit i April 1616 
ej usque posteroruqi." 

"In ecclesiaste ornamentum conditum mutatur mundus mundique illus- 
tria cuncta tempore f^accescunt more fluentis aquae en tres in triuno tumulo 
conduntur at una germani fratres filius atque patris est haeros genitor grand- 
aemus nobilis Inschoche." 

Translation of the last inscription : — The world is changed into an ele- 
vated church-memorial, and all the noble things of earth at this time are 
beginning to pass away after the manner of flowing water. Behold three 
full brothers find a resting place together in a single grave, while another 
son of his father, a grand and noble chief, lies at Inschoch. 

The above inscription agrees exactly with the one given by 
Mrs. Cumming-Bruce, with the exception of the date of the death 
of Janet Sutherland, and she likewise gives an additional Latin 
inscription recounting some" of the glories of the Hays of Lochloy. 

The lineage of Isobel Dunbar will be found in the following: — 

tarliiouiB nf Dunbar, fflarrli anli fHorag 

The Dunbars were descended from Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland 
in 1068, who was implicated in the death of Robertas de Comyn, and fled 
from the wrath of King William I., to the court of his kinsman, Malcolm 
HL, King of Scotland. King ^L^lcolm granted him the earldom of Dunbar 
and made him Defender of the >L-irches. 

Gospatrick was the son of Maldred by Algitha, daughter of Uchtred, 
who had been Earl of Northumberland in the reign of Canute, and was like- 
wise a descendant of Malcolm H. 



82 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

In this line was Patrick, pth Earl of Dunbar and March, to whom we- 
shall return presently. 

After the death of Edward Bruce, the king's brother, his nephew 
Thomas Randolph, was appointed Guardian of the Realm, and of the heir,, 
in case of his being under age at the time of the death of Robert I. and 
failing him these offices to devolve to Lord James of Douglas. 

1. Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, died, leaving by his countess 

Isabel, daughter of Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, two sons, 
Thomas and John, and two daughters, Agnes and Egidia. 

2. Thomas, second Earl, died without issue twenty-three days after^ 

his father. 

3. John Randolph, 3d Earl of Moray, a prisoner in England from 

1335 to 1341, married the Lady Euphemia de Ross, who married 
secondly by Papal dispensation King Robert II., in 1355. 
John was killed at Durham in October, 1346, leaving no heir. 

4. On the death of both her brothers, the heroic Lady Agnes Ran- 

dolph, who had married Patrick, 9th Earl of Dunbar and March, 
assumed the title of Countess of Moray, and thus in Patrick 
was united the three earldoms of Dunbar, March and Moray, 
which descended and was confirmed to their second son : — 

5. John Dunbar, 2d son, on his marriage to Marjorie, daughter of 

King Robert II., by his ist marriage for which a Papal dispen- 
sation had been obtained. (This gives another line of descent 
for Colonel Hay from the Bruces.) 

John was killed in a tournay in 1394, leaving two sons, 
Thomas and Alexander, and a daughter Mabella, married Rob- 
ert, 6th Earl of Sutherland. 

6. Thomas de Dunbar, Earl of Moray, was taken prisoner at Homil- 

don, in 1402, afterward hostage for the King, died in England 
leaving a son Thomas de Dunbar, Earl of Moray in 1408, who 
signed the marriage contract of his sister Euffame with Sir 
Alexander Cumyn of Altyre. He likewise had a daughter, 
Janet, married to Hugh, Lord Lovat. Contract dated at Fyndle- 
teer Castle, 9 August 1422, but his uncle's son became the earl. 
(It was this Thomas, Earl of Moray, who released John the 
Hay from an engagement to marry his daughter, and we hope 
this daughter was Janet, for if so she was not long left dis- 
consolate. Vide Sec. IX. of this work.) 

7. Alexander de Dunbar, second son of John, the 4th Earl, married 

Mauld Eraser of Lovat, and left : — 

8. James Dunbar, son, who succeeded his cousin Thomas in the 

earldom. He married ist his second cousin Isobel, daughter of 
Sir Walter Innes of Innes. She died before the Papal dispen- 
sation arrived, and the marriage was not recognized as legal on 
account of the relationship. 



Tlili 1AM ILY UI< HAY 83 

James married 2d Lady Janet Gordon, eldest daughter of 
Alexander, ist Earl of Iluntly, and dying in 1430 was succeeded 
by the husbands of his dauKhtcrs — the eldest having married 
Sir William Creighton, got I'"rcndraught in tocher; the second 
marrying Archibald Douglas, brother to the Earl of Douglas, 
possessed the earldom until 1425 when he was attainted. 
9. Sir Alexander Dunbar of Wcstfield, son of James Dunbar, 5th 
Earl of Moray by his first wife, Isobcl Innes, was debarred 
the succession, and became the stem (says Mr. Hew Rose) of 
all the extant families of Dunbar. 

He married Tsobel Sutherland, daughter of Alexander Suther- 
land, Lord of Duffus, by his wife Morella (or Muriel) Chisholm, 
heiress of Quarrelwood, and by her had issue : — 

i. Sir James Dunbar of Cumnock, who died in 1504. 

ii. Sir John Dunbar of Mochrum, who was killed in 1505. 
iii. Alexander Dunbar of Kilbinack, killed in 1498. 
iv. Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Moray, died in 1532. 
V, David Dunbar of Durres and Grangehill, who died 
in 1521, and was succeeded by his son: — Alexander in 
1523, who was succeeded by his son : — Robert, who m. 
Christian Zearmouth, and was s. by his son : — David, 
obtained charter of erection of Durres into a barony 
in 1569, and was s. by his son : — Mark, served heir to 
his father in 1569, and sold the estate of Durres to Sir 
John Campbell of Cawdor, and purchased the lands of 
Grangehill in Moray, and was s. by his son : — Ninian 
Dunbar of Grangehill, who m. ist a dau. of Lord BanflF, 
m. 2d a dau. of Dunbar of Bennangefield, and was s. 
by his son : — Sir Robert Dunbar, who was knighted by 
Charles H., and married Grizzel, only dau. of Alexander 
Brodie of Brodie, styled Lord Brodie, who was s. by : — 
Alexander his brother, who was s. by: — Thomas, son, 
m. Janet Dunbar, heiress of VVestfield in 1749, who sold 
the property of Grangehill, and ceased to be connected 
with Moray, 
vi. Patrick Dunbar, Chancellor of Aberdeen and Caith- 
ness. He died in 1595, and was founder of the family 
of Bennangefield. The following is an inscription on 
a tombstone in Elgin Cathedral : — "Here lies Mr. John 
Dunbar of Bennethfield, who died 2d Dec. 1590, and 
Margaret and Isobel Dunbar his spouses, who died 3d 
Nov. 1590, and 4th Dec. 1603," etc. 
vii. Janet Dunbar, who was Lady Inncrugie. 

It would appear from the above that Isobel Dunbar, who 
married her neighbor Jolin Hay of Lochloy and Park, and named 



84 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

one of her sons Patrick (a name appearing for the first time in 
the family of Hay), was a daughter of either David Dunbar of 
Durres and Grangehill, or of Patrick Dunbar, Chancellor of Aber- 
deen and Caithness, or a granddaughter. 

John Hay of Lochloy and Park, by his spouse Isobel Dunbar, had the 
following sons : — 

i. John Hay of Lochloy and Park. His history follows in Section 

XIV. 
ii. David Hay of Foynfield. He was witness in 1571 to his nephew's 

marriage contract, 
iii. Alexander Hay of Foynfield (sometimes Tynefield). He m. ist 

a daughter of Innes of Innes, and m. 2d a Hepburn (1577). 
iv. George Hay, died ante 1606, leaving a son Sir Alexander Hay 

of Fosterseat, who m. Catherine Skene, charters 1603-30; he 

had a son : — Alexander Hay of Warriston : — whose son left a 

daughter: — Janet Hay (1625). 
V. Patrick Hay. (Vide "The Bruces and the Cumyns," p. 619.) 

vi. John Hay the 2d. 

As Colonel Hay descends from Morella or Muriel Chisholm 
by at least two lines, and since living in Charleston, S. C, is an- 
other family — the family of Dr. Arthur Rose — which likewise 
descends from Morella Chisholm, we give the following note re- 
lating to their origin : — 

"The name of Chisholm was right ancient in the south, where Chisholm 
of that ilk enjoyed a good fortune in Teviotdale. ****** j have 
not learned upon what occasion they sold their lands in the south and made 
a purchase in the north, if it was not upon their being made Governors of 
the Castle of Urquhart. That castle with the barony of Urquhart was 
originally a portion of the estate of Cumyn, Lord Badenoch. But upon the 
forfeiture of that family in the reign of Robert Bruce, the castle became a 
royal fort whose governors were appointed by the crown to which it was 
annexed in 1455. 

In 1334, Robert Louder was Governor of the Castle, and probably his 
grandson. Sir Robert Chisholm, succeeded him. I do not find Sir Robert 
Chisholm left any issue except the Lady Kilravock (Rose), and he was suc- 
ceeded by his brother Sir John Chisholm, who, upon the demise of his 
grandfather Sir Robert Louder of Quarelwood, got the lands of Quarel- 
wood, Brightmonie, Kinsterie, etc. 

John Chisholm having a son Sir Robert Chisholm of Quarelwood, the 
latter had only a daughter Morella (Muriel), who married Alexander 
Sutherland of Duffus, which brought into that family a rich accession of 
lands formerly belonging to the Louders." — From "Fam. of Kil." 

Extract from "History of Nairnshire," p. 227 : — 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 85 

"The old castle stood on a high ridge commanding a wide view both of 
the country inland and of the coast seaward. Dinner at that time was a 
mid-day meal, and the sun was hardly in the zenith when Queen Mary 
was (nice more in the saddle and riding down the brae of Moyness toward 
Auldearn. Her host at Moyness was John Dunbar, of the family of West- 
field, hereditary sheriffs of Moray, and if the Dean of Moray was in his 
own parish at the time, the Queen would have made the acquaintance of 
another Dunbar, whose stately mansion, rising three stories in height, and 
surrounded by fine trees, must have attracted her attention. 

The old Kirk of Auldearn standing on the high ground which the pres- 
ent edifice still occupies must have been a prominent object at the time. 
The village itself was a hamlet of detached houses and gardens on the slope, 
with the mill and brew-house on the low ground in front. Kinnudie would 
have been visible from the high road, and on the slope further to the south 
were the homesteads of Knockaudie, Park, and Ballacraggan, with numerous 
cottar houses belonging to the Hays and their subtenants. Anchnacloich 
was possessed at this time by a family of the Roses." 

In this connection the following little clipping, full of pathos, will be 
of interest to our readers : — 

"January 22 — For twa hundred year an' mair, there's been a Baxter at 
Burnbrae, and a Hay at Kilspindie; ane was just a workin' farmer, and the 
other a belted earl, but gude frcends and faithfu'; an', ma Lord, Burnbrae 
was as dear to our folk as the castle was tae yours. 

"A' mind that day the Viscount cam o' age, an we gaithered to wis' 
him weel, that a' saw the pictures o' the auld Hays on yir walls, an' thocht 
hoo monie were the ties that bound ye tae yir hame. 

"We haena pictures nor gowden treasures, but ther's an auld chair at 
cor fireside, an' a' saw ma grandfather in it when a' wes a laddie at the 
schule, an' a' mind him tellin' me that his grandfather had sat in it lang 
afore. 

"It's na worth muckle, an' it's been aften mended, but a'll na like tae see 
it carried oot frae Burnbrae." — The Days of Auld Lang Syne. 





Jfourteentf) feneration 



pHN HAY, LAIRD OF PARK AND LOCHLOY, 

J^ was the eldest son and heir of John Hay of Loch- 
^ loy and Park, by his spouse Isobel Dunbar, ant 
^ died in 1598 (vide tombstone inscription of pre- 
^^ vious section, also p. 619 of "The Bruces and the 
Cumyns," and "History Nairnshire"). 
The following extract is taken from page 258 of the publica- 
tion "The Family of Kilravock," published by "The Spalding 
Club" :— 

"I Johne Hay of Lochtloy grantis me to have ressauit fra ane rycht 
honorable man Huchone Rose of Killraock the sum of four hundrycht 
marks usuall money of Scotland, in part of payment of ane muir sum 
promisit me by the said Hucheon Rose, in name of doit and tocher guid, 
be contrak of mariage solemnizet betuixt my sone and apparent heir Johne 
Hay and Margaret Rose dowthir of the said Hucheon. ****** 
At Elgin the xxj day of October, the yeir of God im sc threescor eleven 
yeirs, before the witness Alexander Hay of Fynesfield, William Hay burgess 
of Elgin, Daniel Hay, and William Douglas, Notary Publict." 

John Hay of Lochloy and Park married Janet Sutherland, who died 
A. D. 1587, the daughter of William Sutherland of Duffus. 

(This marriage is mentioned in "The Bruces and the Cumyns," pp. 
619-20; by Mr. Bain, the author of "The History of Nairnshire," and by 
Burke in "The History of The Commoners," p. 594, with a statement that 
William Sutherland was descended from the earls of Sutherland and was 
the ancestor to the Lords DufTus.) 

The following letter to the writer gives Sir Robert Gordon, 
A. D. 1630, as authority for the lineage of William Sutherland, of 

Duffus, the father of Janet: — 

"Stafford House, London, S. W., Mar. 28, 1906. 
Dear Sir, 

The Duke of Sutherland desires me to acknowledge your letter of 
the 28th ult., and in reply to forward the enclosed copy of part of a 
genealogical table of the House of Sutherland, which gives the information 
you ask for. 

86 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 87 

This table was of a scries very carefully prepared by Sir Robert Gordon, 
Historian of Sutherland in 1630. ♦♦**♦* 

Yours faithfully, 

Alexander Simpson, 

Private Secretary." 

The following is the record ; — 

&utItrrIau^-fluffua 

I. Four traditional ancestors wlio were Thanes of Sutherland from 

whom I->cskyn, Baron of Stratiil)rock, West Lothian; and of 
DufFus in Moray under King David I., 1124-53; who had sons: — 
Hugh Frcskyn c. 1214; William, who had charter of Duffus 
from William the Lion ; and Andrew. 

2. William, son, ist Earl of Sutherland, c. 1235, d. 1248. 

3. William, 2d Earl of Sutherland, son, d. 1307; had sons: — William 

and Kenneth. 

4. William, 3d Earl of Sutherland ; d.s.p. 

5. Kenneth, 4th Earl of Sutherland, son of William, 2d Earl, had 

sons: — William and Nicholas (by his wife, Mary, dau. Donald, 
I2th Earl of Mar). 

6. William, 5th Earl, married the Princess Margaret Bruce, d. 1370. 

From him descended the later Earls of Sutherland. 

7. Nicholas, Lord DuflFus, 2d son of Kenneth, the 4th Earl, married 

Mary, daughter of Reginald le Cheyne by Mary, Lady of Duffus, 
and had two sons : — John, d.s.p., and Henry. 

8. Henry, Lord Duffus, who succeeded his brother. 

9. Alexander, Lord of Duffus, son, married Muriel Chisholm 

( daughter of Sir Robert Chisholm of Quarclwood, vide Section 
Xni.), d. ante 1487 and had issue: — 

i. Alexander, who died before his father, and left a 

daughter Christian, m. William Oliphant, whose suc- 
cession was contested and got shorn of lands in 1507. 
ii. WiUiam, see below. 

iii. Isabel, who married Sir Alexander Dunbar of West- 
field (not given in the record of the Duke of Suther- 
land). 
10. William of Berydale and Duffus, 2d son, died in 1507. 

II. William Sutherland of Duffus, married Janet, daushter of Alex- 

ander Innes of Innes, by whom issue : — i. William ; ii. Alexan- 
der, Dean of Caithness; iii. Elizabeth, m. John, 3d Earl of 
Caithness. 

12. William Sutherland of Duffus, eldest son, died 1529, and left: — 

13. William Sutherland of Duffus, son, died ante 1549. 

(The table sent us continues the line down to George, 7th 
and last Lord Duffus, who d.s. 28 Aug. 1875.) 



88 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Janet Sutherland, daughter of the above William Sutherland 
of Duffus, married John Hay of Lochloy and Park ; he died 
1598, she died 1587, and their remains were interred at Auld- 
earn, with an inscription still to be seen on a monument in the 
chancel of the cathedral of that town. They left children : — 
(Mr. Bain, historian, and "The Bruces and Cumyns.") 

i. John Hay, died in life of his father, having married 

in 1571, Margaret, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, 
and left three sons : — i. John Hay of Lochloy, who 
s. his grandfather in 1598, and d.s. in 1600; ii. David 
Hay, who s. his brother in 1600, was brought up by 
Sir Alexander Hay, Clerk Register, and his great-uncle, 
Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat, married Marie Rose 
of Kilravock, by whom : — John Hay of Lochloy, died 
in 1640 (married 1629, Jean Cumyn, dau. of James 
Cumyn, Baron of Altyre, by Margaret Fraser, sister 
of Simon, Lord Lovat, and had a son Sir John Hay 
and Colonel William Hay of Lochloy and Park in 1704, 
etc.), William, 2d son, and Hugh Hay of Brightmonie, 
d. 20 Jan. 1664; iii. Robert Hay of Strowie and Park. 
ii. George Hay, history follows in Section XV. 
iii. Mr. Alexander Hay of Kinnudie, who married Eliza- 
beth Monro, and left a son Walter Hay. 

During the Battle of Auldearn, 1645, MacDonald, in 
command of the Gordon Highlanders, was forced to 
fall back, defending his body with a large target, he 
resisted single handed the assaults of the enemy. When 
he had just reached the garden gate, Hay of Kinnudie, 
tall and powerful, uncle to young Hay of Lochloy, 
pressed MacDonald hard who called out, "My men are 
coming up behind you!" 

Hay turned round and MacDonald, with a single 
sweep of his broadsword, cut him down. Another 
minute and MacDonald's own sword was shivered to 
pieces. — History of Nairnshire. 



jTiftccntfj (feneration 



^»^WW 



jEORGE HAY was the second son of John I lav of 

G^ Lochloy and Park by his wife Janet, daughter of 
^ Wilham Sutherland of Duffus, and died ante 1598, 
^^^ (luring- the hfetime of his father.') 

His younger brother was Mr. Alexander Hay 
of Kinnudie, who had a son Walter, whilefthe 
properties of Lochloy and Park passed down to David, the son of 
George's eldest brother Joliu^ 

We extract the following from "The History of Xairnshire," 
pages 253 and 254. relating to this David : — 

"The Laird of Brodic and Brodie of Lethen, as might be expected, 
signed the National Covenant. David Hay of Lochloy also adhibited his 
name. David had had rather an adventurous career. He was the second 
son and in the year 1600 succeeded his brother John. A letter of his has 
been preserved which gives a curious account of the upbringing of a Xairn- 
shire lad in these early days. 

"He says that in his minority, being under the government of (his 
uncle and cousin) Alexander Hay of Kinnudie and Walter, then his curators 
(his uncle George having died), he was transported from the county of 
Moray to Lothian for education in the schools there. He remained there 
until the year of the Plague. He was left desolate until Sir Alexander 
Hay, Clerk of the Register, at the earnest entreaty of Sir Alexander Hay 
of Fosterseat, removed him to Whittinghame, where he was lovingly en- 
tertained for a year. 

"The origin of the Hays of Fosterseat may thus be traced — John of 
Lochloy, the hero of the breach of promise case (he who had requested re- 
lease from an engagement to marry the daughter of Thomas Dunbar, Earl 
of Moray in order to marry the daughter of Donald, Thane of Cawdor) 
was succeeded by his son William of Lochloy, Dallas, and Park ; he was 
succeeded by his son Jnlin in T480; John's eldest son William succeeded 
him, marrying Kathcrinc L'rquhart of Cromarty, by whom he had John, 
who married Isobel Dunbar in 1554, and died in 1563, leaving several sons: — 
John, who succeeded him ; David and Alexander of Foynesfield, and George 
Hay, who dying before 1600, left a son Alexander, who married Catherine 
Skene, and became Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat. 

89 



90 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"The Hays of Kinfauns, of Wariston, of Easter Kennet, of Monckton, 
of Woodcockdale, and of Carriber, can all be traced to the Hays of Lochloy. 

"It happened that when the young Laird of Lochloy, David, came on the 
visit to Sir Alexander Hay, at Kelso, and was invited to accompany him 
and — writes young Lochloy, 'transported me with horse and abutments 
effeiring to my rank to the City of London, to the effect that I might see 
and understand good manners and fashions.' 

"His expenses in London for breakfast, dinner, supper, and bed, 'con- 
form to the order of England,' were 36s Scots per day, his horse 6d, hay 
6d, oats 2d, and bread 14s Scots. 

"He remained in London from September till March, and thereafter 
till his marriage, and his kinsman. Sir Alexander, defrayed all his expenses, 
and when trouble arose with his uncles and cousins of Kinnudie and Foynes- 
field in regard to count and reckoning during his minority. Hay of Foster- 
seat helped him most lovingly to redeem his property and to recover his 
woods, which were, he says, 'the pleasure of my estate.' David married 
Marie Rose of Kilravock and left a numerous family." 

By referring to the table of "Sutherland-Dufifus" in the pre- 
ceding section, it will be seen that Kenneth, the 4th Earl of Suther- 
land, married Mary of Mar. He was slain at the Battle of Homil- 
don Hall A. D. 1333, along with many nobles. The lineage of 
Mary will be found in the following account of: — 

Uhit Earlhom of Mar 

1. Martacus, ist Earl of Mar, witnessed a charter to the Culdees 

of Loch Leven by Malcolm Cawn Mohr, A. D. 1065. 

2. Gratnach, 2d Earl of Mar, son, witnessed the foundation charter 

for the Monastery of Scone by King Alexander L, 11 14. 

3. Margundus, 3d Earl of Mar, son, witnessed charters of King 

David L, and of King Malcolm IV. 

4. Gillocher, 4th Earl of Mar, son, witnessed charter of Malcolm 

IV. 

5. Morgundus, 5th Earl, son, married Margaret, and was reinvested 

in the earldom by King William I., A. D. 1171. 

6. Gilbert, 6th Earl of Mar, son, was living A. D. 1180. 

7. Gilchrist, 7th Earl of Mar, brother, was living 1214. 

8. Duncan, 8th Earl of Mar, son and heir, married Arabella, daugh- 

ter of William, son of Nescius, Lord of Latherisk. 

9. William, 9th Earl of Mar, son and heir, was one of the Regents 

of Scotland in 1258, Great Chamberlain in 1265, married Eliza- 
beth, daughter of William Cumyn, Earl of Buchan. She died 
1267; the earl went on a special mission to King Henry III., 
and died soon after. 
10. Donald, loth Earl of Mar, son and heir, was a nominee on the 
part of Robert Bruce in his contest for the Crown, A. D. 1290. 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 91 

His dauglitcr, the Lady Isabella, married King Robert I. ; the 
earl d. 1294. 

11. Gralney, nth Earl of Mar, son and heir, married Christian, daugh- 

ter of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, sister of King Robert I., 
(she married 2d Sir Christopher Scton and 3d Sir A. Murray 
of Bothwell) and had children: i. Donald; ii. Elyne, who mar- 
ried Sir John Mcntoith, Earl of Arran. 

12. Donald, 12th Earl of Mar, son and heir, married Isabel Stewart, 

daughter of Sir Alexander Stewart of Bonkill. 

On defeat of his uncle. King Robert I., he was imprisoned 
but not chained in respect to his youth; after Bannockburn, he 
was exchanged with the Queen for the Earl of Hereford. As 
Regent of Scotland after the death of Randolph, Earl of Moray, 
he was defeated by Edward Balliol at Dupplin, A. D. 1332, and 
slain. 

He had daughters, Margaret, Countess of Mar, who married 
William, Earl of Douglas and 2d Sir John Swinton; and Mary, 
who married Kenneth, 4th Earl of Sutherland. 

13. Nicholas Sutherland, Lord Duffus, 2d son, married Marie, daugh- 

ter of Reginald le Cheyne by his wife Mariot, 4th daughter of 
Malyse, 7th Earl of Strathearn by his wife Matilda, daughter of 
Magnus V., the last Angus Earl of Orkney and Caithness (vide 
Earls of Strathearn in Section III). 

Reference to tlie "Sutherland-Duffus" table of Section XIV. 
No. 7 shows the continuation of this Hne as follows : — 

Nicholas Sutherland, Lord of Duffus, who had a son : — Henry Suther- 
land, Lord of Duffus, who had a son : — Alexander Sutherland, Lord of 
Duffus, who had a son : — William Sutherland of Berydale and Duffus, who 
had a son : — William Sutherland of Duffus, who had a son : — William Suther- 
land of Duffus, who had a son : — William Sutherland of Duffus, who died 
ante 1549, and had a daughter: — Janet Sutherland, who married John Hay of 
Lochloy and Park, and had sons : — i. John Hay, heir to the lands of Lochloy 
and Park; ii. George Hay, ancestor of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay; iii. Alex- 
ander Hay of Kinnudie. 

George Hay, second son mentioned above, seems to have 
drifted to the South, and acquired property in Clackmannanshire, 
in the last probably by marriage, and by his wife left issue: — 

(Vide "The Bruces and the Cumyns," p. 619), 

i. David Hay. 

ii. Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet ; history follows in Section 

XVL 
iii. James Hay. 




^ixteentf) (feneration 



ALEXANDER HAY, LORD EASTER KENNET, 

A^ was the 2d son of George Hay, and was possessed 
1^ of the lands of Bridgemark in Kirkcudbright, and 
^ ^ Easter Kennet in Clackmannanshire. He died 

In 1564 he was nominated by Maitland of 
Lethington for the office of Clerk of the Privy Council, and 
was Director of the Chancery in 1577. He was appointed Clerk 
Register in 1579, and admitted Senator to the College of Justice 
with the title of Lord Easter Kennet. 

In 1579 he was a member of the Commission for the Jurisdic- 
tion of the Kirk, and in 1581 was a member of the commission 
for the visitation and reformation of hospitals, and acted as arbi- 
trator in the feud between the families of Gordon and Forbes. 
After the "Raid of Ruthven," in November, 1581, he carried to 
Lennox the King's commands that he must quit the kingdom and 
during the absence of Maitland was "Interim Secretary for the 
Scotch Language" in 1589. In 1592 he received grants of numer- 
ous charters for his good services, and died 15 September 1594. 

Letters from and to him were published by his son Alexander 
Lord Newton, and in "Thorp's Cal. State Papers," Scot. Series 
between 1573-84; he is mentioned in "Brinton and Haig's Senators 
of the Royal College of Justice," Anderson's Scottish Nation ; Acts 
of the Scottish Parliament iii., 138, 219, 231, 626; Books of 
Sederunt; Keith's App. 174; Melville Mem. p. 205; Spotiswood 
p. 379; Mayse pp. 71-72; Monteith's Theatre of Morality p. 54. 
(Vide "Dictionary of National Biography"). 

From the Nairnshire Telegraph, June 11, 1907, we extract the 
following : — 

"The old ruined castle of Inshoch is the only visible object reminding 
us of the knightly family of Hay of Lochloy, save the memorials of the 

Q2 



Till: I'A.MILV Ub' llAV 93 

race in the Churchyard of Aulikarn and the effigy of the warrior in armour 
in the Cathedral of El^in. ****** 

"The main line of the Hays of Lochloy died out about a generation ago 
but not a few of its branches from younger sons still flourish. One of 
these — strange to say — is in the Southern States of America — in South 
Carolina — ****** jj^j curiously enough the old religious fervor, 
so characteristic of the Hays of Lochloy in Reformation and Covenanting 
times, manifests itself under the warm sunshine of South Carolina, in 
respect that out of one family of Hays there are several of them ministers 
of the Presbyterian Clnircii. Occasionally the Hays gave a Priestary to the 
Episcopal Church — it would have been unfair to have kept all their sons 
for one side. ****** g^t ^ve must pass over several generations 
of Johns and Williams of Lochloy until we come to John Hay who died in 
1563. This Laird of Lochloy and Park left at least six sons. At this time 
the estate of Park and Lochloy had attached to it several small properties, 
such as Kinnudie, Brightmonie, part of Rait, and Foynesfield. 

"The eldest son, John, of course, gets Lochloy; the second and third 
sons, David and Alexander, are settled at Foynesfield ; and the fourth son, 
■George, gets the small property of Foresterseat, near Elgin, an old possession 
of the Hays of Lochloy. The younger generation seek in the South a wider 
spiiere for their energies ; and George's son Alexander becomes a prominent 
man of affairs in Edinburgh. He becomes Clerk Register, is knighted, and 
takes a leading part in Scottish political afTairs as Sir Alexander Hay of 
Foresterseat. His father died in 1606, when he succeeded to Foresterseat. 

''His cousin George, son of the Laird of Lochloy, had several sons to 
"be provided for, and the second son, Alexander, went south, and also rose 
rapidly in the legal profession, and acquired, along with other properties, 
Easter Kcnnct in Clackmannan. Alexander was knighted by King James, he 
"became Clerk to the Privy Council, Director of the Chancery, Clerk Regis- 
ter, and a Lord of Session, and took the title of Lord Easter Kennet. He 
was a great favorite of King James, and when the King went to Denmark 
for a wife, he took Hay of Easter Kennet with him as Interim Secretary of 
the Scottish language. 

"Young David Hay of Lochloy, who succeeded his brother, had been 
sent to school by his uncle of Kinnudie. The Plague appeared, and the 
school was broken up. The poor boy, so far from home, would have been 
left in a desolate condition had not Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet 
come to his rescue. After a time Sir Alexander transferred David to the 
guardianship of Sir Alexander Hay of Foresterseat, who brought him up ; 
and never was pupil more grateful to his guardian. In after \'ears when 
David was comfortably seated at Inshoch, and had married Marie Rose, 
•daughter of the 'gentle baron of Kilravock,' he draws up a formal deed, 
expressing his obligations to him, not only for his upbringing, but also for 
paying off the debts on his estate and settling several ether troublesome 
■questions. 



94 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"There was some dispute about Foynesfield which was referred to twa> 
arbiters, one of whom was Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet, and. 
although these last Hays in the south had become men of great wealth and 
high position in the land, they never forgot their old friends in Nairnshire 
and, in more cases than that of David of Lochloy, did they set the lairds on. 
their feet again. 

"Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet died in 1594. His youngest son,. 
Sir Alexander Hay of Newton and Whiteburgh, was also a Lord of Ses- 
sion in 1610 under the title of Lord Newton, and he was appointed Lord. 
Clerk Register in 1612, and died in 1616, of whom are the Hays of Moncton.' 
Hay of Easter Kennet's eldest son John married Mariot Drummond," etc. 

(We reserve the remainder of this article on the Hays of Lochloy by 
Mr. Bain, the historian of Nairnshire, for the next section, where it properly 
belongs.) 

Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet m. Mariot Farquhar (vide charter 
of 1582) by whom three sons: — ("The Bruces and the Cumyns," p. 619.) 

i. John Hay, whose history follows in Section XVIL 

ii. Daniel Hay. 

iii. Sir Alexander Hay of Whiteburgh in 1600; died in 1616, and 

left a son : — Alexander Hay of Moncton 1646, who had a son : — 

Alexander Hay of Moncton living 1683. 



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^ebentccntt (^rncration 



R. JOHN HAY OF EASTER KENNET was the 

M^ eldest son and heir of Sir Alexander Hay, Lord 
^ Easter Kennet, by his spouse Mariot Farquhar, 
^ descended from an ancient family of Gilmerscroft, 
^^■^•^i^^ <"' ^^o^th Britain. He was living A. D. 1600, and 
married Mariot (or Marian) Drummond. In con- 
tinuation of our extract introduced into the last section from Mr. 
Bain's sketch of "The Hays of Lochloy," we quote : — 

"Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet died in 1594. * * * 
* * * His eldest son, John, married iMariot Drummond and 
left two sons : — 

"i. Alexander Hay, who left three daughters ; ii. David Hay, 
■of Woodcockdale, who acquired the estates of his father, now 
very extensive, and who sold Easter Kennet in 1638, and con- 
tiguous property, to the Bruces of Clackmannan and Wester 
Kennet, for the sum of 16,000 merks. The Hay family acquired 
the property of Woodcockdale in Linlithgow and Bridgemark in 
Kirkcudbright and other properties. 

"By a singular piece of good fortune, the old Easter Kennet 
estates returned to them. Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird (grand- 
son of Mr. Robert, the minister), married a daughter of Sir Robert 
Bruce of Clackmannan, and the lands were settled upon an elder 
daughter of the marriage, failing a male heir, on condition of her 
marrying a gentleman of the name of Bruce or one who should 
assume the name and arms of Bruce. Such a gentleman was found 
in David Hay, the younger son of Hay of Woodcockdale, the 
former owner of the property. David Hay married Helen Bruce, 
the Lady of Kinnaird, and assumed the name of Bruce. Of their 
four sons only the younger survived and he assumed the name of 
Bruce, while his sisters stuck by the name of Hay. 

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96 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"David Bruce (sic lege Hay) by his first wife had two sons^ 
the youngest of whom, James Bruce, alone survived. This James 
Bruce (in reality Hay) was the famous Abyssinian traveler — 
really a Hay of Lochloy by male descent. 

"The late Mrs. Cumming-Bruce of Dunphail was his great- 
granddaughter. 

"It is from one of the sons of Hay of Easter Kennet that the 
family of Hays of South Carolina and a professor in one of the 
educational institutions of Charleston, S. C, descend." 

The above refers to a member of one of the branches of the 
family of Colcock, which likewise descends from the Hays of 
Erroll and Lochloy. 

Mr. John Hay of Easter Kennet by his spouse Mariot Drummond had 
two sons: — ("The Bruces and the Cumyns," and Mr. Bain.) 

i . Mr. Alexander Hay, one of the Clerks of Session, who left 
daughters : — Margaret, Anna, and Ellen, provided for out of 
Easter Kennet, one of whom married Sir John Gibson. 

ii. Mr. David Hay of Woodcockdale, Easter Kennet, Craigtown, and 
Kennet Paus, sold to Bruce of Clackmannan and of Wester 
Kennet, in 1638, for 16,000 merks. History follows in Section 

xvni. 




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\R. DA\']I) IIAV ()!• WOODCOCKDALE was the 
2cl son oi Mr. John Hay of Easter Kennet by his 
spouse IMariot Drummond. He d. A. D. 1662. 
After tlie decease of his elder brother Mr. .\lex- 
ander I lay, who left no male heirs, David Hay 
acquired the properties of Craigtown. Kennet Paus, 
and Easter Kennet, and sold this last estate in 1638, to Bruce of 
Clackmannan and Wester Kennet for the sum of 16,000 merks. 

He held the office in Edinburgh of a Clerk of Session, and 
married Jean W'inrhame (or Jean Winrahame). 

The following abstracts were sent us by Mr. Henry Paton, 
120 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland, and relate to the 
above : — 

"Action by Mr. David Hay of Woodcockdale, against Captain Robert 
Drummond, brother, son, and lawfully charged to enter heir to the de- 
ceased Mr. John Drummond of Woodcockdale, his uncle, in which mention 
is made of Jean Winrahame (Winrhame), the pursuor's spouse, and of the 
alienation to him and her and their heirs, of the lands of Woodcockdale, 
on the 8th and 22d of March, 1644." (Register of Acts and Decrees, Vol- 
ume 533.) 

"1652. August i8th. — Action at the instance of Mr. David Hay of Wood- 
cockdale, for himself and as -executor to the deceased Bethia Hay, spouse 
to the deceased John Durham of Duntervie, his sister, against Mr. Alexan- 
der Hay, writer in Edinburgh, and John Vaus in Barnbarrs, for his inter- 
est, mentioning that the deceased James Hay of Brigmark, as principal, and 
the pursuer as cautioner for him, granted a Bond on the 27th Nov. 1647, 
to the said deceased Bithia Hay, for 600 merks, and the said James Hay also 
by his bond, dated 17 May 1648, promised to pay 1,000 merks to the pursuor, 
and Mr. Alexander Hay now of Brigmark, as son and heir to the deceased 
James, having renonced fo enter heir to his father, the pursuor seeks ad- 
judication to be made of certain lands and teinds, etc., to which the said 
James Hay of Brigmark miglit have claim." (Ibid, Vol. 558.) 

Mr. David Hay of Woodcockdale, by his spouse Jean Winrhame, had 

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98 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

the following children: — ("The Bruces and the Cumyns," also from an ex- 
tract of his family chart sent us by Sir Lewis John ErroU Hay, Bart., and 
"The Hay Tables.") 

i. Mr. John Hay of Woodcockdale, (vide below). 

ii. James Hay of Carriber (or Carruber), whose history will be 

presented in Section XIX. 
iii. Andrew Hay. ( Not given by the authorities cited above, but 

proved by the will of his father, James Hay of Carriber.) 

James Bruce (sic lege James Hay), the celebrated Abyssinian 
explorer, was a second cousin of Michael, the father of Colonel 
Ann Hawks Hay. The latter was a great-grandson of James Hay 
of Carriber, while the former was a great-grandson of Mr. John 
Hay of Woodcockdale, and therefore we introduce an account of 
the descendants of John of Woodcockdale, which should be inter- 
esting to their cousins — the posterity of James of Carriber. 

We abstract first from "The Bruces and the Cumyns," a very 
elaborate work by Mrs. Cumming-Bruce, great-granddaughter of 
the Abyssinian traveler : — 

1. Mr. John Hay of Woodcockdale was the eldest son of Mr. David 

Hay of Woodcockdale, and had sons : — David Hay, Andrew 
Hay, and John Hay. (Mackenzie's Deeds, Vol. 79.) 

2. David Hay, eldest son of John, married in 1687, Helen Bruce, dau. 

Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird, of the same stock as Robert I., 
and by the terms of the will of her grandfather, assumed the 
name of Bruce, and thus became David Bruce. 
His descendant, Mrs. Cumming-Bruce, now says : — 
"From an old family Bible, printed in 1561, the same which 
Mr. Robert Bruce called for on his deathbed, I copy the fol- 
lowing entries by Helen Bruce, who married David Hay : — 
i. "Helen Hay, our first child, was born in January, 

1689, and was baptised on the 12th day by Mr. Suther- 
land, Minister of Larbert. Witnesses — James Hay of 
Carriber, Mr. John Hay of Woodcockdale, and John 
Drummond of Newton." 

She married later Counsellor Hamilton of London, 
brother of Alexander Hamilton of Wishaw, and had 
among other children a son, William Gerard Hamilton, 
better known as "Single Speech Hamilton," who was 
by some supposed to be the author of "The Letters of 
Junius." 
ii. "Alexander (Hay) was b. in Jan., 1691, and bap. by 
Mr. Sutherland before the same witnesses." 



I 



THE I-AMILY OF IIAY 99 

/ 
iii. "John (Hay) was h. in January, 1693, and bap. 

on the loth of that month by Mr. Patcrson, Minister of 
Borthwick, before the same witnesses. 
iv. "James (Hay) was b. in January, 1694, and was bap. 
the 8th of tliat montli by Mr. Paterson. Witnesses — 
Carribcr and Woodcockdale, James Galloway of Bal- 
gair, and Andrew Kerr. 
V. "Margaret (Hay) was b. nth of August, 1695, and 
bap. by Mr. Sutherland the same day before the same 
witnesses. (She died later unmarried.) 
vi. "David (Hay) was b. the 25th of November, 1696, 
and bap. by Mr. Sutherland, before the same witnesses." 
On the death of her husband David Hay, Helen 
married 2d Robert Boyd, brother of Major Ninian 
Boyd of the Scotch Greys. She died in 1728, and of 
her four sons only David, the youngest, survived his 
mother, the Lady of Kinnaird. 
3. David (sic lege Hay), the youngest child of David Hay by his 
spouse Helen Bruce of Kinnaird, assumed the name of his 
mother and became David Bruce. 

He married ist Marion Graham, eldest daughter of James 
Graham, Advocate and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, 
by his first wife Marion Hamilton, eldest sister of Alexander 
Hamilton of Pencaitland (Judge Graham married 2d Lady 
Mary Livingston from whom the present family of Grahams 
of Airth descends). 

On November 12th, 1715, David, with many other young 
gentlemen, one of whom was probably Michael Hay his cousin, 
had been taken prisoner at Preston, when Judge Graham went 
to Carlisle at his own e.xpensc, to plead for them A. D. 171 7. 

David married 2d Agnes Glen, sister of Governor Glen of 
South Carolina, and sister of Andrew Glen of Longcroft, co. 
Linlithgow (whose only daughter Elizabeth Glen, married in 
1767, George, 8tH Earl of Dalhousie, and was grandmother of 
the late earl, she died A. D. 1907). 
David by his ist wife Marion Graham had a surviving son: 

i. James Bruce (Hay), the Ayssinian traveler. 

By his 2d wife Agnes, the sister of Governor Glen of South 
Carolina, David had issue : — 

ii. Alexander Bruce (Hay), bred an advocate to the 

Scotch bar. d.s.p. 
iii. Andrew Bruce (Hay), who settled the "Bruce Her- 
mitage" in Dec. 1775, in the Island of St. Vincent, d.s.p. 
iv. David Bruce (Hay), an officer in the Duke of Rich- 
monds's regiment, and was mortally wounded in the 
breach of the fortress called "the Morro," at Havana, 

LOFC. 



loo THE FAMILY OF HAY 

while fighting as a volunteer in the forlorn hope, d.s.p. 
V. Captain William Bruce (Hay), in the service of the 
East India Company, proposed and led the attack on 
the 3d August 1780, in which was captured from the 
Mahrattras, the fortress of Gualior until then deemed 
impregnable, d.s.p. 
vi. Thomas Bruce (Hay), who was agent in St. Vin- 
cent, d.s.p. 
vii. Robert Bruce (Hay), physician at Lucknow, died 
May, 1800, at Serampore, leaving a considerable for- 
tune, and large claims for money lent to the Nabob of 
Oude which were never settled. His large collections 
of Natural History were purchased by the Duke of 
Marlborough, d.s.p. 
4. James Bruce (Hay), the Abyssinian traveler, eldest son mentioned 
above, of David Bruce (Hay) by his wife Marion Graham, was 
born at the family residence of Kinnaird, co. Stirling, Scotland, 
on the 14th Dec, 1730. 

"His father, David, was the eldest son of David Hay of 
Woodcockdale, in the shire of Linlithgow, by Helen, dau. of 
Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird, who dying without male issue, 
transferred to her and her descendants his name and estate. 

"The family of Woodcockdale was sprung from the Hays 
of Park (and Lochloy), in the province of Moray, an old 
branch of the Hays of Erroll, whose bravery distinguished them 
at a remote period of our national history. ****** 
In Feb., 1728, David married Marion Graham, daughter of 
James Graham of Airth, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 
and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland. * * 
* * * * His father married a few years after the death of 
his first wife, Miss Glen, daughter of James Glen in Longcroft, 
in shire of Linlithgow, and sister of James Glen, who was for 
a long time Governor of South Carolina. ****** 

On Saturday, the 26th Apl. 1794, having entertained company 
at Kinnaird, as he was going down stairs about eight o'clock in 
the evening to hand a lady into her carriage, his foot slipped 
and he fell headlong to the ground ****** ^nd he 
expired early the next morning. 

He was 6 feet 4 inches tall, large and well proportioned, of 
strength corresponding to his stature, his features and face 
elegantly formed, his air noble and commanding. He was 
attentive to his dress and particularly successful in wearing the 
dress of the nations through which he passed in his travels, in 
an easy and graceful manner, to which he was indebted in part 
for his good reception, especially in Abyssinia." — Extracts from 
Alexander Murray's "Accounts of the Life and Writings of 



'i'lli: lAMILV Ol' ll.W loi 

James Bruce of Kinnaird," who was in reality James Hay and 
a second cousin of Michael Hay. 

James Bruce (Ilay) was well educated, master of many lan- 
guages and accomplishments, and for many years in foreign 
countries led a life full of interesting and daring adventure, 
lie iiiadc many collections of great value to the world, and 
wrote a history of his explorations in Africa. 

He married 2d, 20 May 1776, Mary Dundas, daughter of 
Thomas Dundas of Fingask, by Lady Janet Maitland, daughter 
of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale, by whom among other children : — 

5. James, who was b. 28 June 1780, and had a son: — 

6. James Bruce (Hay), s. his father in 1794, but being still a minor 

was entrusted for his education to Dr. Knox, and subsequently 
to the poet, Hector M'Xeil. 

He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Spicer of Wear, 
CO. Devon by Elizabeth Parker, dau. of Francis Parker of 
Blagdcn, uncle of the 1st Lord Boringdon. 

He died in Edinburgh June, 1810, and left an only daughter : — 

7. ^^ary Elizabeth Bruce (Hay), succeeded her father in i8to. She 

married 21 June 1820, Charles Lennox Gumming, 2d son of Sir 
Alexander Gumming Gordon of Altyre and Gordonstown, Bart. 
She was the autlior of "The Bruces and the Gumyns," from 
which we have extracted largely in our work, and which is 
recognized as a compilation of great historical and genealogical 
value, based on original documents. 

8. Elizabeth Mary, daughter, m., 1841, James Lord Bruce, who s. 

his father as 8th Earl of Elgin, and 12th Earl of Kincardine. 
They had a daughter: — Lady Elma Bruce, m. Hon. T. Hovell- 
Thurlow, by whom a son : — James Frederick. 



Mnttnnti) (feneration 



UPP^^AMES HAY OF CARRIBER was the second son 
^ T ^ of Mr. David Hay of Woodcockdale, Craigtown, 
^ I ^ ^"*^ Easter Kennet, by his spouse Jean Winrhame. 
^ */ ^ -^^ married Magdalen Robertson, descended of 
^^^^^ Strowan, was a Writer to the Signet, and died 
A. D. 1702. 
The following abstracts sent us by Mr. Henry Paton of Edin- 
burgh, are offered as supplying information relating to the fore- 
going James Hay, W. S., of Carruber : — 

"Factory by George Hay, only lawful son to the deceased John Hay, 
uncle to the Earl of Erroll, who is going forth of this kingdom to London, 
and being confident of the kindness and care of James Hay of Carruber, 
appoints him his factor and commissioner to uplift certain sums due to 
him, especially a debt due by the deceased James, Earl of Tullibardine, since 
1682, contained in a bond granted by him to his said deceased father, there- 
in designed lawful son to George Hay, grand-uncle to the Earl of Erroll, 
dated at Edinburgh, 29th September, A. D. 1697." — (Durie Deeds, Vol. 98.) 

"1703, December 15th. — Testament Testamenter of James Hay of Car- 
riber, who died in 17 — , given up by himself upon the i6th September 1690, 
and by Magdalen Robertson, his widow. 

"This estate is valued to 1,333 pounds, 6 shillings 8 pence, and consists 
of some debts due to him by William Lockhart of Birkhill, and Jean Bruce, 
his mother, and the tenants and possessors of their lands. 

"This testament is dated at Edinburgh i6th September 1690, and in it 
he appoints his spouse Magdalen Robertson, his only executrix. She is to 
have the life rent use of his estate, and after her death it is to devolve 
on John Hay, his eldest son, whom failing on George Hay his 2d son, whom 
failing on Andrew Hay his 3d son, whom failing on any other son he may 
yet have (he lived twelve years longer), and failing sons it is to go to his 
daughters successively according to age. 

"He nominates his spouse only tutrix to his children, and failing her 
by death or marriage, he nominates Sir John Foulis of Ravelston, Sir 
Alexander Gibson of Pentland, George Drummond of Blair, Mr. John Hay 
of Woodcockdale, George Robertson, Clerk to the Register of Hormineys ; 

102 



Tin: 1■■.\.MIL^■ ()I- II \V 103 

Aiulrcw I lay, 'my broll;er;' James Crawford, 'my nephew;' John Robertson 
and Dr. James Robertson, 'my brethren-in-law,' or any three of these to be 
tutors to his said children. / 

"Confirmed as above. John Hay of Carribcr as cautioner. (Edinburgh 
Testaments, Vol. 82.)" 

Note in the above abstract of the will of James Hay of Carri- 
ber: — that he gives in this will twelve years before his death and 
the testament may have been drawn up many years before he gives 
it in, that he makes conditional provision for any other son he may 
yet have and was outlived by his wife and must have had other 
children, that he names a brother Andrew and also a son Andrew, 
that he refers to Mr. Drumniond of Blair, and names James and 
John Robertson as his brothers-in-law, and a nephew James Craw- 
ford. 

"1743, Sept. 6th. — Testament Dative of Jolin Hay of Carriber (eldest 
son of above James Hay), who died there on — October 1708, given up by 
Andrew Hay, late of ^^ugd^um, and Grizcl Hay, widow of Thomas Boyes, 
W. S., brother and sister german to the defunct. 

"Thomas Boyes (nephew). Writer in Edinburgh and lawful son to the 
said deceased Thomas Boyes, cautioner. (Edinburgh Testaments, Vol. 
107.)" 

"James Hay of Carribcr, 2d son of David Hay of Woodcockdale, Lin- 
lithgow, died December, 1702, married Magdalen Robertson." (Extracted 
by Mrs. Graham from "The Society of Writers to the Signet 1594-1890," 
p. 96.) 

"1671, Admission of James Hay, son of the deceased Mr. David Hay of 
Woodcockdale." (Ibid, p. 313.) 

"10 Dec. 1702. Andrew Marjoribank of that Ilk. Apprentice (at law) 
to James Hay of Carriber. Eldest son to Thomas Marjoribank of that Ilk. 
Died 13 .'Xpril 1742. ^^arried A. D. 1700, Christian, daughter of James Hay 
of Carriber, Linlithgowshire. Commissary of Edinburgh. Entered as a 
member to the Society of Writers to the Signet. (Ibid, p. 139.)" 

"Fiscal 1710-17. Thomas Boyes. Died about 1718. Married 19 April 
1708, Grizcl, daughter of James Hay of Carriber, Linlithgowshire. Entered 
as member of Writers to the Signet admitted 1704. (Ibid, p. 369.)" 

"Under List of Members — p. 140. — .Andrew Marjoribank of that Ilk. 
Eldest son of Andrew Marjoribank of that Ilk, W. S. (by wife Christian 
Hay). Died 20 Feb. 1766. Married Tst Mary Chalmers in 1744, and 2d 
Jean, daughter of Thomas Boyes, Deputy-Clerk of Session, in Feb. 1755 " 

"Under Abstract of Minutes, p. 364. 

"16 Nov. 1702. .'\dniission of Andrew Marjoribank from the office of 
James Hay of Carriber." 



104 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"Ibid.— 1708, loth Jan. Committee consisting of Thomas Boyes, An- 
drew Marjoribank and eight others, appointed to meet and enquire into 
the records of the signet, etc." 

"Ibid. — Commission by the Earl of Mar (John Erskine) to Thomas 
Boyes and thirteen others to be Commissioners, dated at Edinburgh 7th 
Nov. 1713." 

"Ibid, p. 321. — 1681, 13th July. Commission by Alexander, Earl of 
Moray, sole Secretary of State for Scotland, appointing James Hay and 
other Commissioners for regulating the calling of the Writers to the Signet." 

"P. 322. — James Hay and others appointed to take account of the box, 
5th Dec. 1681." 

"P. s^S- — James Hay and other, to remove abuses." 

"P. 328. — Admission of Mr. Alexander Drummond, lately prentice and 
servitor to James Hay, 14th Nov. 1684." 

"P. 344. — Admission of Andrew Kerr from the office of James Hay, 
2d October 1696." 

In Nisbet's Heraldry, Vol. i, p. 324, mention is made of Mr. John 
Robertson and Mr. James Robertson "descended of Struan," also to John 
Crawford, Dean of Guild in Linlithgow, descended of Haining, of Marjori- 
banks descended of the Johnstones — which evidently refers to the brothers- 
in-law of James Hay of Carriber, and the family ot his nephew and son- 
in-law. It will be remembered that the great Scotch minister was a Rob- 
ertson descended of Strowan. 

From documents before us it is shown that James Hay of Car- 
riber in addition to Carriber, partly in LinHthgowshire and partly 
in Stirlingshire, possessed the lands of Craigend and Easter and 
Wester Gaw, and that by his spouse Magdalen Robertson, who sur- 
vived him (he died A. D. 1702), he left the following children: — 

i. John Hay of Carriber, who d. in 1708, and left two sons: — John 

of Carriber and Andrew. The former had a son Andrew, who 
sold the lands of Carriber and died A. D. 1764. 

ii. George Hay. 

iii. Andrew Hay of Mugdrum. 

IV. Thomas Hay of Bridgehouse, whose history follows in Section 

XX. 

V. Christian Hay, who married A. D. 1700, Andrew Marjoribanks, 

writer to the Signet, Commissary of Edinburgh, and by him 
had a son Andrew Marjoribanks. 
vi. Grizel (or Grace) Hay, who married Thomas Boyes, W. S., in 
the year 1708, 19th April, and had children: Thomas Boyes, 
and Jean Boyes, who married her cousin Andrew Marjoribanks. 

For evidence showing that James Hay of Carriber had a fourth 
son Thomas Hay, born after his will was drawn up, see the Letter 



THE FAMILY OF IIAV 105 

of Factory written by his brother Andrew Hay, and dated Rome, 
Italy, 4th April 17J1. in which he appoints as his aj^ent in Scotland 
during' his absence, "'M} brother gcrman, Thomas Hay, Writer in 
Edinburgfh," and in the letter describes himself as being a "son of 
James Hay of Carriber." 

It is hardly necessary to explain that "brother german" means 
a law fill brother where Ik^Ii parents are in common. 

That this Thomas Hay was the father of Michael Hay is 
proved by the wills of Isabel Balfour and of letters of renunciation 
by Michael Hay and his sister Jean Hay, to be given in the next 
Section XX. 



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mmmm 



jHOMAS HAY OF BRIDGEHOUSE, WRITER IN 

T^ EDINBURGH, was the 4th son of James Hay of 
^ Carriber, VV. S., by his spouse Magdalen Robert- 
^ son. He married Isabel Balfour, daughter of Sir 
David Balfour of Forret, and sister of Michael 
Balfour of Forret. He died 28 January 1733. 
We have before us many references to the above Thomas Hay, 
Writer in Edinburgh, extracted for us by Mr. Henry Paton, 120 
Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, and he must be carefully distin- 
guished from his kinsman, Thomas Hay, W. S., who married Anna 
Gibson, and was founder of the house of Alderston, in Haddinton- 
shire, who belonged to an older generation. 

It is not always an easy task in tracing a pedigree to find abso- 
lutely convincing proof connecting our first American ancestor with 
his continental parentage, and unless this link in the chain of evi- 
dence be incontestable, all is unsatisfactory, no matter how plaus- 
ible. In this case we have been especially fortunate, and in order 
that our readers — Colonel Hay's descendants — may be perfectly 
assured of the certainty of their descent, at the risk of proving tire- 
some, we propose to be as explicit as the circumstances demand. 

We first ofifer some extracts from a few letters from a gentle- 
man in Edinburgh whose reputation for ability and integrity is well 
appreciated in his native city, and whose work often leads him to 
delve among the original charters and records of the past. 
These extracts are as follows : — 

"120 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, 17 Feb. 1905. 
"Dear Sir :— 

"I have to acknowledge your favor of the 22d ult. and also of the 
previous one of Dec. i8th to which I have been giving effect by instituting 
a special search for information, the results of which I am enclosing. I 
have found positive proof of Michael Hay having a sister Jean, who married 

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THE FAMILY OF II \V 107 

Dr. George Brthune of Cupar, Fife, and a brother Andrew, the mother 
•of all being Isabel Balfour, so that the puint is now the parentage of 
Thomas Hay, their fatlier. 

"He is mentioned as sometimes of Cupar and sometimes of Edinburgh, 
but T searched botli registers and others, but could find no traces of the 
births of his cliildren. The Hays are a numerous family in some parts of 
Scotland, and I have examined a large number of wills, also other registers, 
"but without, as yet, attaining certainty," etc. 

"Yours faithfully, 

"(Signed) Henry Paton." 

In a letter from same to same dated 30th May 1905 : — 

"I was just deploring w'th myself that I must write you by this mail 
"that after a long search through many volumes of record I had still no 
success when this very day I came upon a deed which will satisfy you. 

"I feel very thankful it has turned up before I wrote, for I know what 
disappointment it would cause you to have received my negative letter. 
The deed is a Letter of Factory by Andrew Hay, son of the deceased Jamei 
Hay of Carriber, to Thomas Hay, Writer in Edinburgh, his brother german, 
in whose fidelity and fitness he has entire confidence, to uplift all moneys 
due to him and transact necessary business on his behalf. The Factory is 
dated at Rome 4th April 1721, and recorded on the 15th May following, in 
the Register of Deeds ( Durie's Office) Vol. 160. It is thus proved that 
Thomas Hay was son of James Hay of Carriber." 

In a letter from same, bearing date 17 August 1906. 

"I send you herewith enclosed the certified copy of the Factory. It is 
•copied from the original deed itself, and this copy is as valid in any Court 
-of Justice as the original. ****** j am frequently among old 
charters in private collections, and something further of interesting nature 
may turn up." 

We now append an exact copy of this certified copy of the Letter of 
Factory as sent us by Mr. Paton: — 

" public ErroriiB of drutlattft " 

"At Edinburgh the Fifteenth day of May One thousand seven hundred 
and twenty one years. 

"In presence of the Lords of Council and Session Compeared Mr. 
Mathew McKell Advocate Edinburgh as Procurator for the Party after 
■named and designed and gave in the Factory underwritten desiring the 
same might be registered in their Lordship's Books conform to Law which 
desire the said Lords found reasonable and ordained the same to be done 
accordingly whereof the tenor follows viz. : — 

"I Andrew Hay Law full son of the Deceaset James Hay of Carriber 
Having an entire confidence of the fidelity and fittncss of Thomas Hay 
Writer in Edinburgh my Brother german for discharging the trust under- 
writen Do therefore by these presents make and constitute tlie said Thomas 
Hay my lawful factor and Commissioner and hereby give and grant to him 



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my full power warrand and commission for me in my name and upon my 
behalf To uplift and receive all and sundry debts and sums of money due 
and adebted to me by whatsoever persons Receipts or discharges thereof to 
grant which shall be so sufficient as granted by myself and if need be to 
pursue thereof and such sum so to be raised to lay out upon neu security 
and generally to do every other thing requisite there-anent and anent the 
manageing and disposing of any other my effects and concerns in Britain in 
the same manner as if I were personally present Promising to hold the same- 
Firm and Si able With this Provision always that the sd. Thomas Hay shall 
be accountable to me for his intrmissions by vertue hereof v.hereunto by the 
acceptation of these presents he binds and obliges Himself consenting to the 
registration hereof in the books of Councill and Session or any other Judges 
books competent in Scotland therein to remain for preservation and there- 
unto I constitute the said Mr. Mathew McKell Advocate my Procurator. 

"In Witness whereof I have written and subscribed these presents at 
Rome the fourth day of Aprile old stile in the year of God One thousand 
seven hundred and twenty one. 

"(Signed) Andrew Hay. 

"Extracted on this and the two preceding pages by me, Deputy Keeper 
of the Records of Scotland. 

"(Signed) George A. J. Lee. 
"The principal Deed above extracted is impressed with a Duty of six- 
pence. 

"Certified by me, 

"George A. J. Lee." 

Impressed with the official seal, "Ab Archivis Publicis Scotiae." 
"1756. January 28th. — Testament Testamentary and Inventory of the 
goods, etc., of Isabel Balfour, widow of Thomas Hay, Writer in Edin- 
burgh, thereafter in Cupar, in the parish of Cupar and sheriffdom of Fife, 

who died on given up by Mrs. Jean Hay, daughter of the said Isabel 

Balfour, and spouse to Dr. George Bethune, physician in Cupar of Fife, in 
terms of a Disposition by the Defunct to her which is engrossed, etc., bears 
that Isabel Balfour, widow of Thomas Hay, Writer in Edinburgh, for the 
love and affection which she bears to Jean Hay, only daughter now in life 
procreated between her and the said deceased Thomas Hay, assigns to her 
all her effects and other goods of which she may die possessed, appointing 
her sole executrix to her, but reserving the power to alter. — Dated at 
Edinburgh 2d Feb. 1734. Witnesses: — Andrew Marjoribanks of that Ilk 
and Thomas Boyes, Writer in Edinburgh. 

"The Estate is valued to 1524:17:8 pounds and consists of debts due to 
her, made up as follows: — Bill dated 19 July 1723, drawn by Helen Gordon, 
widow of James Pitcairn, Writer in Edinburgh, and accepted by the said 
Thomas Hay for 6:8:6 pounds sterling with interest; and it is said there is a 
decreet at the instance of the said Helen Gordon against ]\Iichael, Andrew, 
and Jean Hay and their ♦^^utors and curators, as representing the deceased 



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Thomas Hay, tluir father, brfuri' the sherifT of Fife, dated I2lh Feb. 1734, 
decreeing them to pay to her tlie said sum and interest due thereupon. 

"To this sum the said Isabel Balfour has right by the latter's will and 
testament of the said Helen Gordon, in which she appoints the said Isabel 
Balfour, her only Executor, which testament is dated 5 April 1723, which 
sum was due to the said Isabel Balfour at the time of her death, with 500 
pounds Scots as the expenses of the said Thomas Hay's funeral, and four- 
teen pounds sterling for mourning to the said Thomas Hay's children and 
200 mcrks for tlie maintenance of these children from 28th January then 
last, being the day of the said Thomas Hay's death, to the term of Whit- 
sunday then next, and which three sums last above mentioned are contained 
in a decreet of cognition obtained before the Commissary of St. Andrews 
****** against the said Michael, Andrew, and Jean Hay, dated 
28 November 1733. 

"Confirmed 28 January 1756. John Pilmore, Writer in St. Andrews, 
cautioner. (Register of Edinburgh Testaments, Vol. 22.)" 

It will be noted that the witnesses to Isabel's will are Andrew 
Marjoribanks and Thomas Boyes, who, it will be seen by reference 
to the table in Section XIX, were nephews of the testator's husband, 
Thomas Hay. and sons of Christian and Grizel, daughters of James 
Hay of Carribcr. The date of Thomas Hay's death is likewise given 
in the will as having been 28th Jan. 1733, while his wife Isabel 
Balfour died A. D. 1756. 

We shall next give abstracts from documents which will show 
the lineage of Isabel Balfour, reserving for the next section of our 
work, two deeds of renunciation — one by Michael Hay, dated King- 
ston, Jamaica, 1757, the other by "Jean Hay, spouse of Dr. George 
Bethune," dated 1757, at Cupar. Fife, executed in the year follow- 
ing their mother's death. The abstract follows: — 

"Disposition by Thomas Hay. Writer in Edinburgh, narrating that 
Andrew Hay of Mugdrum (his brother german) had paid to him 5,000 
merks, and therefore he sells to him and his heirs and assignees, the lands 
of Bridgehouse in the parish of Logie, and shire of Fyfe, and assigns to 
him the dispositions of the lands and teinds granted by the deceased Sir 
James Ramsay of Logie, with consent of Dame Lilias Seton his spouse and 
David, Robert, William, and Margaret Ramsay, his children, to the de- 
ceased Sir David Balfour of Forret, one of the Senators of the College 
of Justice, dated 23d August 1682 and 2d April 1684. 

"This disposition is dated at Cupar 6th February, 1729, one witness being 
Michael Balfour of Forret. (Durie, Vol. 219.)" 

"1691, November 27th. — Sasine, 2d October, of Mrs. Marie Hay, lawful 
daughter of Peter Hay, elder of Leyes, (by her Attorney, George Wilson, 



no THE FAMILY OF HAY 

servitor to Mitchell Balfour of Forret) upon her contract of marriage 
with Mr. James Balfour of Randerstoun, dated 2ist Nov. 1690, in an annual 
rent out of the lands of Randerstoun in liferent; among the witnesses to the 
contract being Michael Balfour of Forret, James Arnot of Woodmiln, Mr. 
Peter Hay, younger of Leyes, etc. (Fife Sassines Vol. 15.) 

"1692, June loth. — Sasine, 7th June, of Barbara Hay, second lawful 
daughter of the deceased John Hay of Parish in terms of her contract of 
marriage with George Hay of Mortoun, in the half lands of Mortoun, in the 
parish of St. Fillans, Fife, in life rent." 

"Testament Testamentary of Mrs. Ann Hay, 3d lawful daughter of 
the deceased Mr. Peter Hay of Leyes, in the parish of Errol and sheriffdom 
of Perth, who died in June, 1702, given up by Helen Hay her sister german, 
widow of the deceased John Pilmore (it is to be observed that John Pilmore 
was cautioner for the will of Isabel Balfour-Hay), sometime merchant in 
Dundee as her executrix. ****** gj^g appoints her said sister 
german her executrix and leaves the following legacies : — To Ann Hay, law- 
ful daughter of Peter Hay of Leyes, her lawful brother, 1000 merks, or 
should he die before marriage or attaining the age of twenty one years, then 
to George Han, second lawful son to the said Peter; to Anna Balfour, 
lawful daughter to Mr. James Balfour of Randerstoun, 1000 merks, and 
failing her as above to Jean Balfour, her eldest sister, and failing both to 
the other children procreated between Mr. James (Balfour) and Marie 
Hay, his spouse, her sister. ****** This is dated — Leyes 15th 
January 1702, among the witnesses being Alexander Drummond, lawful son 
to Adam Drummond. 

"Confirmed 18th May 1705, Robert Pilmuir, merchant in Dundee, cau- 
tioner. (Vol 16.)" 

"Sasine of Mr. James Balfour in the lands and barony of Randerstoun. 
He is 2d lawful son of Sir David Balfour of Forret, Knight, one of the 
Senators of Justice. 

"The destination is to the said Mr. James Balfour and his heirs male 
and female ; whom failing to Michael Balfour, eldest lawful son to Sir 
Andrew Balfour, M.D., Knight (probably a brother of Sir David) and his 
heirs male lawfully procreated of his body; whom failing also, to Michael 
Balfour, now of Denmilne, Knight-Baronet (evidently a 2d brother of Sir 
David Balfour), and his heirs male, etc. (Fife Sassines, Vol. 15.)" 

"1737, April i6th. — Factory by Andrew Blair (sic lege Hay) of Bridge- 
house, Esq., lawful son to the deceased Thomas Hay of Carriber, Writer, 
(being to go out of Scotland) to Thomas Trotter, brother german to Henry 
Trotter of Morton Hall; dated at Edinburgh, 15 Apl. 1737. (Durie Deeds, 
Vol. 195)" 

"1740, March 20th. — Factory by Andrew Hay of Bridgehouse, narrating 
that as he resides outside of Scotland, he cannot transact his own business 
there, and appoints Thomas Trotter (as above) his factor. 

"Dated at London, 13 March 1740. (Ibid, Vol. 201.)" 



THE FAMILY OF IIAY in 

"Testament Dative of Andrew Hay, Esq., of Bridgchouse, residentur in 
Edinburgh, who died in October, 1754, given up by Mrs. Margaret Nicholson, 
his widow, daughter of Sir William Nicholson of Glcnberry, in whose favor 
the defunct made a Disposition and Settlement on the 5th of April 1754. 

"Mention is made in the deed of Andrew's father, Thomas Hay, Writer 
in Edinburgh. Alexander Innes was cautioner. (Edinburgh Testaments, 
Vol. 116.)" 

It would appear from the evidence of the foregoing abstracts 
of wills, inventories, and factories, that Isabel Balfour was the 
granddaughter of Sir David Balfour of Forret, Knight and Senator 
of Justice. Sir David Balfour of Forret had two brothers (Sir 
Andrew, Knight, and Sir Michael, Knight-Baronet, each of whom 
had a son Michael) and two son.s — Michael Balfour and James Bal- 
four of Randerstoun, who married Marie, daughter of Mr. Peter 
Hay of Leyes. (The Earls of Kinnoul were descended from Peter 
Hay of Leyes, as was also the James Hays, Earls of Carlisle.) 

Isabel Balfour was a daughter of either the eldest of the above 
sons of Sir David Balfour, Michael, or of the second son James 
Balfour of Randerstoun, it is not certain which one. 

The lands of Bridgehouse (an estate three miles west of Bath- 
gate, in Linlithgowshire, not far from the lands and castle of Car- 
ribcr), and other property originally belonging to Sir James Ram- 
say of Logic, were alienated to Sir David Balfour of Forret, and 
descended to Thomas Hay of Carriber, Writer in Edinburgh, 
through his marriage to Isabel Balfour, granddaughter of Sir 
Davici. 

Bridgehouse was then alienated by Thomas Hay to his brother 
Andrew Hay of Mugdrum, after the latter's return from Italy, for 
5.000 mcrks, and Andrew Hay of Mugdrum leaves this property to 
his nephew (and probable namesake) Andrew, 2d son of his brother 
Thomas Hay, who, on his death, disposed and settled them on his 
wife Margaret, daughter of Sir William Nicholson of Glenberry; 
we do not know whether Andrew left any children. (This Andrew 
was the uncle of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay.) Neither do we know 
what was the lineage of Sir David Balfour of Forret. Knight and 
Senator of the College of Justice, but it should not be difficult to 
establish. 

Thomas Hay of Bridgchouse (sometimes designated of Carri- 
ber), 4th son of James Hay of Carriber, had the following children 



112 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

by his spouse Isabel Balfour, granddaughter of Sir David Balfour 
of Forret, Knight and Senator of Justice : — 

i. Michael Hay, whose history follows in Section XXI. 

ii. Andrew Hay of Briclgehouse, who married Margaret, a daugh- 

ter of Sir William Nicholson of Glenberry, and d. A. D. 1754. 

iii. Jean Hay, who married Dr. George Bethune of Cupar and 
Kingask, in Fifeshire, son of Dr. James Bethune by his wife 
Ann Hatray, whom he married A. D. 29th April 1704, daughter 
of the celebrated Dr. Sylvester Ratray by his spouse Helen 
Inglis. 

Dr. George Bethune was the first Grand Master of the St. 
Regulus Masonic Lodge of St. Andrews, and was succeeded 
in that office by the Earl of Elgin. He was of a celebrated 
family of Bethunes (or Beatons), hereditary physicians to the 
Lords of the Isle, and is supposed to be of the family of 
Maximilian Bethune, Duke of Sully, the great Minister of 
France in the reign of Henry IV. 

Janet Bethune (or Beaton) is prominent in Scot's "Lay of 
the Last Minstrel." 

The property of Kingask in Fifeshire had been possessed by 
James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, in 1598; and descended to Agnes 
Hay, Countess of Glencairn, his daughter. It was possessed in 
1710 by Thomas Bethune, in 1720 by Dr. James Bethune, and 
descended to his son Dr. George Bethune, who sold it to Sir 
Philip Anstruther. 

Dr. George Bethune, whose coat armor bore an otter's head 
erased and whose crest was a physician's cap, died in February, 
1774, and was buried with masonic honors. His widow, Jean 
Hay, died A. D. 1778, and had three children :—i. Margaret 
Bethune, b. 1740; ii. James Bethune, b. 1743; and iii. a daughter, 
born 1746. 




^luentpfirfit (Scnciatiou 



jICHAEL HAY, GENTLEMAN OF KINGSTON, 
JAMAICA, was the oldest son of Thomas Hay of 
Bridgehouse, Writer in Edinburgh, by his spouse, 
Isabel Balfour, granddaughter of Sir David Bal- 
four of I-'orret. He married 2d in Jamaica Esther, 
daughter of Judge Martin Wilkins. 
It has been suggested to us in our Scotch correspondence by 
one oi his name, that he was involved in the political differences of 
17 1 5, and after the Battle of Preston, leaving Scotland, took refuge 
in the West Indies. His kinsmen the Earls of Carlisle and Kinnoul 
had been Governors of Barbadoes. 

It will be seen by referring to Section X\TII, No. 3, that 
Judge Graham went to Carlisle at his own expense, to defend his 
grandson David Bruce (sic lege Hay) and other young gentlemen 
who had engaged in the rising of 1715, and been taken prisoner at 
Preston. The above mentioned David was a cousin of Michael, 
from the same neighborhood, and we believe it probable that 
]Michael was out for the Stewart in the 'Vising." His name appears 
in the records of the West Indies for the first time about 1740. 
John Hay of Restalrig was active in the insurrection of 1745. and 
present at Culloden. where he held the position of Secretary and 
Treasurer for Prince Charles Edward; after that defeat, so disas- 
trous to the cause of the Stewarts. John Hay was forced to flee 
the country. 

A story is told relating an incident of the pretty little Scotch 
lass, Grizel (or Grace) Hay. who, escaping secretly from the house 
for several days with food hidden beneath her hood, kept her uncle 
^John Hay from starvation, until the vigilance of Cumberland's 
butchers slept, and her charge made a safe escape from his refuge 
in a tomb. 

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114 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

At times she was followed by the soldiers, but a precocious, 
feminine shrewdness, and high courage born of affection and loy- 
alty, enable her to elude the human sleuth-hounds following in 
her trail ; or boldly confronting them, she baffled their curiosity by 
her girlish wit. Or, perhaps — to the honor of manhood — his 
henchmen were not so eager for the blood of a passive victim as 
their master, and Cumberland must be satisfied by the assumption 
on the part of his followers of a vindictiveness that hid in them a 
generous mercy foreign to his unfeeling heart. 

What we have learned of Michael Hay in the Island of Jamaica 
can be most explicitly set forth by extracting from the ample docu- 
ments supplied us by our faithful and very intelligent agent Mrs. 
Laura Nichols Graham, whose address at present is "The Cumber- 
land," Washington. She was not the first lady who journeyed ta 
the West Indies on such a mission, but the result was more gratify- 
ing than that of Gertrude Atherton seeking the paternity of Alex- 
ander Hamilton, whose father was a kinsman of Michael Hay. 

On the 28th of May, 1901, writing from the Hotel Essex, 
Boston, Massachusetts, Mrs. Graham announces her intention of 
sailing the following day on the "Admiral Farragut," of the United 
Fruit Company's Line, for Port Antonio, Jamaica, the remainder 
of the journey to be made by rail. 

We extract from her report of about one month later: — 

"New York City, 2d July 1901. 
"Dear Mr. Colcock, 

" After a charming trip of five days, I arrived in Kingston early 
Tuesday morning, and almost immediately set out to the Parish Church. 
****** Assisted by the Archdeacon, Mr. Downer, and his ser- 
vant, I began my search for the tombstone, which lasted three burning 
afternoons before success was met. It must have been a pathetic sight to 
see me out in the churchyard in the broiling sun, sweeping the old tomb- 
stones which lay flat and half covered by soil and leaves. Just as I was 
giving up in despair, I paused in the centre aisle of the dimly lighted church 
for a moment, and glancing down at my feet saw the name "Grant" on an 
almost obliterated tombstone of white marble, forming a part of the floor. 
I was standing on it ! 

"All that is discernible of the coat-of-arms is the left side of the shield, 
surrounded by an oak wreath. ****** jjjg names of Martha 
Grant, Michael Hay, and Isabella Richmond, having been perhaps more 
deeply chiseled than the rest of the inscription, were perfectly readable, but 
the rest is more or less worn by the feet of many generations of parish- 



THE FAMILY OF IIAV 115 

ioiicrs, being in the centre aisle of the church. The location of this vault 
proves that the persons wiio lie there were people of prominence in Kings- 
ton. ****** Tliis tombstone is now partially protected from 
further wear bi' benches fastened to tlie Hoor, placed there since the church 
was rebuilt. ****** 

"About nine feet to the right of tliis tombstone is that of William Hay 
of Westmoreland. I'.etween tlieni lies Waterhouse of Fcrnclly, Esq., who 
was born about the same year as William Hay, and his crest is a dog holding 
something in its mouth. To the left of Michael lies Dr. Samuel Knight, 
and Bassilia Hawkcs is buried nearer the main entrance. 

"The gentlemen upon whom I called for advice and assistance from time 
to time, and from whom I received the greatest courtesy, were : — Mr. Twells, 
Vice-Consul, acting for Mr. Watts; Mr. W. Anthony Baker of the Sur- 
veyor-General's Office; Mr. Frank Cundall, Secretary of the Jamaica In- 
stitute; O'Conner DeCordova, Registrar of the Supreme Court; Mr. S. P. 
Smeeton, Registrar-General of the Island Record Office, at Spanish Town; 
and .Archbishop George W. Downer of the Parish Church. 

"I found it necessary to go out to Spanish Town where the earliest 
records are kept. The Church of England registers of the different parish- 
ers, recopicd, together with the wills and deeds, constitute the only vital 
records of the Island. Of many of the parishes, 1750 is the earliest record, 
that of Kingston being one of the earliest. Many of the parishes have been 
amalgamated, and this makes the work of searching more complex. There 
is now no St. Dorothy, but it is possible that Hay's Savannah, now in Clar- 
endon, was formerly in that parish. 

"There were Hawkes in Port Royal, and Michael Hay owned lands 
there. A land patent in Port Royal was granted to one, John Hay, 15th 
Sept. 1668. 

"I am inclined to believe that Michael Hay had no living relatives in 
Jamaica except those mentioned in his will. ****** |-{g men- 
tions his sister Jean, who married Dr. George Bethune of Cupar in Fife, 
Scotland. The Bethunes are of noble lineage, and are now known as the 
Lind.say-Bethunes. It would seem that the Ballards, Ellises, and Beck- 
fords, all eminent families in Jamaica, were connected with the Lindsay- 
Bcthunes, as Sir David Lindsay of Evelick, subsequent to 1752, married 
Susanna Charlotte Long, widow of George Ellis, while Edward Long mar- 
ried Mary Ballard, daughter of Thomas Beckford. ****** 

"Michael Hay appears in Jamaica records about the time of his mar- 
riage to Esther, only daughter of Judge Martin Wilkins and wife Ann. She 
was the widow of John Sharpington. His marriage to Ann seems to have 
brought additional lands to his already large estate, and her property de- 
scends to Ann Hawkes Hay through the will of his grandfather Wilkins. 

"Upon the death of his wife Ann, Martin Wilkins married Johanna 
Roberts, 'a gentlewoman of Vere,' who (probably) outlived him. Sh* 
was the mother of Isaac Wilkins, and three other children; the latter died 
young. 



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"The sister of Judge Martin Wilkins, Mrs. Ann Mister, wlio was a 
widow for many years, left her property to Ann Hawkes Hay, and she is 
doubtless the great-aunt for whom he was named Ann. 

"The name of Hawkes I cannot trace in the family. That there was 
an Ann Hawkes in Jamaica is proved by the burial record of 'Edward 
Hawkes,' the property of Anne in Port Royal, 2d Nov. 1737. * * * * 

"You will see that I have copied the wills of Michael Hay and Martin 
Wilkins and abstracted the wills and deeds of the contemporary Hays in 
Jamaica. The records are ample, and I could have spent another fortnight 
to advantage. ****** That the estates of Ann Hawkes Hay in 
Jamaica were valuable is proven by the fact that two suits in Chancery were 
sustained by them — proceedings at that time no less expensive and tedious 
than at the present day. ****** Michael Hay, after wife Esther's 
death, married Elizabeth Webb, widow of Archibald Campbell, who was 
Assistant Governor of Jamaica. His signature, dated 1780 or 90, thereabouts, 
is preserved at the Jamaica Institute. Of this marriage there was no issue, 
but Mary Campbell of Scotland may have been her daughter by her first 
marriage. 

"Michael Hay owned property in the parishes of Saint Dorothy, Saint 
Andrew, Saint David, Port Royal, and the parish and town of Kingston. 
He was administrator of the estate of Martin Wilkins (although his widow 
Johanna was appointed in the will) and was guardian of Isaac Wilkin. 
He was likewise administrator of the estate of his wife Elizabeth's grand- 
mother, Elizabeth Villers ; and was duly appointed guardian of his son 
Ann Hawkes Hay, for whom he held in trust the estates of Martin Wil- 
kins and Ann Mister. 

"Michael Hay's daughter Isabella (named undoubtedly for his mother 
Isabel Balfour) married Walter Richmond, and died soon after, probably 
without children, as no Richmond baptisms could be found during the period 
of their marriage. 

"At her death, her interest in the Hay estate ceased; her husband re- 
married. I could not find his will. Nor could I find wills of Isabella Rich- 
mond, or Johanna Wilkins, as married females could not devise property at 
that time. 

"The last record of Ann Hawkes Hay in Jamaica was A. D. 1771. 
****** Could not find will of Mary Patty Macey's deceased hus- 
band Thomas ; he must have died elsewhere. 

"Did not find marriage of Dr. George Bethune and Jean Hay, but will 
write to Cooper in Fife with a view of learning her father's name. Will 
also try through Demarara and New York records to learn the parentage of 
Dr. George Bethune and his brother Divie (David), mentioned in "Duffeld 
Family." 

"Spring Garden Estate is one of the most prosperous in the Island. 
The old maps at the Surveyor-General's office show two tracts of land in 
the name of Hay, adjoining Spring Garden in St. Dorothy's, now held 
by the heirs of Charles Verley, who died while I was in Kingston. Hunt's 



TIIF, I'AMII.N' Ol- ll.\\- 117 

Bay is quite near Kingston. ****** 'llie nearest railway station 
to Hay's Savannah is May Pen. ****** There appears in the 
old maps an estate called 'Willikyns,' forming part of Bushy Park. Martin 
Wilkins was the proprietor of Xightingalc Pen and Old Pen in tlie Savannah 
(later called Hay's Savannali). ****** 

"Although Ann Hawkes Hay made many transfers of his property, I 
fancy tliey were for the most part leases. The 99 years' lease made by his 
own grandmother, Ann, expired in 1817. (.After his death.) I believe there 
is property in Jamaica which rightfully belongs to the heirs of Colonel Hay. 

"I found it necessary to go back and forth to Spanish Town every day, 
as the local accommodations were poor. By taking the train leaving King- 
ston at 7:30 in the morning, T was able to spend six hours each day at the 
Record Office, returning at 5:30, and reaching the hotel in time for dinner. 
This was my life in Jamaica — working all the time, with an occasional 
afternoon at the Library Office of the Institute, or seeking information 
elsewhere. I have taken the liberty of including the cost of these trips 
among my items of expense which I submit to you for approval. 

"At last I have found the motto 'Laboranti Palma' among the Hay 
crests. In Fairbairn's 'Crests of Great Britain and Ireland,' appears 'Hay. 
Scotland. .Xn arm from elbow, in hand an ox yoke with bows gu. Motto: 
Laboranti Paima.' ****** 

"Yours very respectfully, 

"Laur.\ S. X. Gr.\ham." 

Not far from the vault that holds the remains of Michael, the 
father of Colonel Ann I lawkes Hay. is the stone over the dust of 
Basilia Hawkes, and on this stone is written the following in- 
scription : — 

"Here lyes Basilia Hawkes 
who died after her Brother Richard the ijtli Feb. 1739. 
"Go; fair example of untainted youth, 
Of modest wisdom and pacific truth, 
Compos'd in suffering and in joy sedate. 
Good without \'oisc, without Pretention Great; 
Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. 
Who knew no wish but that the world might hear; 
Of softest manners, unaffected mind; 
Lover of Peace, and friend of Human kind, 
Go, live! for Heaven's Eternall Year is thine. 
Go, and Exalt thy Morall to Divine. 
And thou blest Maid, attendant on his doom, 
Pensive hast followed to the Silent Tomb, 
Steer'd the same course to the same quiet Shore, 
Not parted long, and now to part no more. 
Go, then ! where only Bliss Sincere is known. 



ii8 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Go, where to live and to enjoy are one! 
Yett take these tears, Mortality's relief. 
And till I share your joys, forgive my grief. 
These little Rites : a stone, a verse receive. 
They are all a Mother, all a Friend can give." 

2II1P Will anti (Hahxcii of ^trljai'l i^ac 

"In the name of God Amen. I, Michael Hay, of the Parish of St. 
Andrews, in the Island of Jamaica, Esquire, being in good health and of 
perfect mind and memory, do make this my last Will and Testament in 
manner following : 

"First, I desire that all my just debts and Funeral expenses be fully 
paid and satisfied. Item : I give and bequeath unto my friend James Alves 
of the Parish of Kingston, Gentleman, the house in which he lives, with 
the appurtenances, Scituate in Princess Street in the Town of Kingston, To 
hold to him during his natural life and afterward to revert to my Heir at 
Law hereinafter named. Item : I give and bequeath unto Isabella Hay, 
the Daughter of Ann Main late of the Parish of Kingston the yearly sum 
or annuity of eighty pounds Current Money of Jamaica to be paid to her 
out of the Rents and Profits of my estate during her natural life by two 
equal half-yearly payments, the first payment to be made six months after 
my decease and so forth thereafter, and I do Hereby Charge and Subject my 
whole Estate real and personal to the payment of the said annuity to the 
said Isabella Hay. Item : I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue 
and remainder of my Estate both real and personal or of whatever kind or 
quality the same may be, unto my son Ann Hawks Hay, and to the 
heirs of his body lawfully to be begotten forever. 

"But in case my said son shall happen to die before he attains his age 
of Twenty one years, and without lawful issue, or in case after his attain- 
ing the age of Twenty one years, he shall happen to die without disposing 
of my said real estate bequeathed to him, then and in that case, I give and 
bequeath one full moiety or Equal Half Part of my said real and personal 
estate unto the several children of my sister Jane Bethune, the wife of 
Dr. George Bethune of Cooper in Fife, in that part of Great Britain 
called Scotland, begotten or to be begotten, to be equally divided among 
them, share and share alike, and to their heirs forever ; and the other moiety 
or equal half of my said estate, I give and devise and bequeath unto the 
above named Isabella Hay to hold to her and the heirs of her body for 
ever, but in case the said Isabella Hay shall happen to die without lawful 
issue, then I give, devise and bequeath the moiety of my Estate so bequeathed 
to her, unto the said children of my said sister Jane, to be equally divided 
among them share and share alike in the same manner with the other moiety 
of my said Estate bequeathed to them as aforesaid. ****** 

"And I do hereby nominate and appoint Henry Livingston and John 
McLean both of the Parish of Kingston in the Island aforesaid, merchants. 



THE FAMir.V ()!• HAY 119 

Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, and Guardians of my said 
son Ann Hawkcs Hay until he shall attain the age of twenty one years, 
and I iieroby revoke all former wills by mc heretofore made, and declare this 
to be my last Will and Testament. 

"In witness whereof I, the said Michael ITay the Testator have here- 
unto set my hand and seal this Twenty Sixth Day of April in the year of 
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine (i759^- 

MICH: Hay (Seal)" 

"Witnesses : James Brown ; Robert Gordon ; John StanclifFe. 
"Proved, 19th August 1762, by James Brown, before W. H. Lyttclton. 
(Island Record Orticc, Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies: Wills: 
Liber 34, folios 12 and 13; Enr. 19th August 1762, Jamaica Island.) 

(HuMcil 

"I, Michael Hay, of the Parish of St. Andrew, in the Island of Jamaica 
aforesaid, Esquire, do make and publish this Codicil to my last Will and 
Testament in manner and form following : — 

"Imprimis, I give unto Dr. John Kydd of the Parish of Kingston and 
Martha, his wife, and unto my daughter Isabella Hay, the sum of Forty 
Pistoles each, to buy them mourning. Item : I give also and bequeath unto 
the said Martha Kydd and the said Isabella Hay the rents issues and profits 
of the Penn commonly called or known by the name of Tittles Penn, now 
leased to me by Daniel Moore, to have receive take and enjoy the same 
during the remainder of the term therein yet to come, free and clear of and 
from the payment of the rent reserved to be paid for the same to the 
said Daniel Moore; and I hereby subject my other Estate with the payment 
of the said rent and every part thereof. I also give unto the said Martha 
Kydd and Isabella Hay all the furniture belonging to me at the said Penn, 
together with all the Sheep, Goats, and Small Stock thereon, to be to them 
their Executors administrators and assigns in equal proportions Share and 
Share alike. And I likewise give unto them, the said Martha Kydd and 
Isabella Hay, the use of the following negroes (my own property) during the 
remainder of the term of the said lease yet to come, videlicet, Monimia, 
Sarah, Celia, and Eve, with their increase, and from and after the determina- 
tion of the said lease, I will that the said negroes do revert and become a 
part of my residuary Estate. 

"Item : I give unto the said Martha Kydd one piece of plate belonging 
to me called the Jorum-Cup and Cover. I give unto the said Dr. John Kydd 
my Xew England Horse and Kittoreen and likewise one small Bay Horse 
now at Mount Pelior Estate in the ParL-^h of St. David. And lastly it is 
my desire that this Codicil be annexed to and taken as part of my Last Will 
and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and 
affixed my seal this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thou- 
sand seven hundred and sixty two. 

"Michael Hay. 

"Witnesses: William Forbes; David Thomas; Campbell Scrogie." 



120 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

It will be observed in the will of Michael Hay that he refers 
to a daughter by Ann Main, whom he provides with an anuity of 
about $450, together with the profits, rents, live stock and negro 
slaves of Tyttles Penn, which last is to be divided with Martha, 
wife of Dr. John Kydd. It is probable that Martha Kydd was a 
sister of Ann Main, and aunt of Isabella Hay, who was entrusted 
to her care on her mother's death. The names of Kydd, Alves, 
Forbes, Gordon, Campbell, Livingstone, M'Lean, are found among 
the landed gentry around Edinburgh, Scotland, and it is not un- 
likely that some of them cam.e to Jamaica at the same time and 
under the same circumstances as did Michael, and friendships 
existed between them in the mother country. 

In his will Michael devises one-half of his estate, under cer- 
tain conditions, to the children of "my sister Jane Bethune, wife 
of Dr. George Bethune in Cooper, Fife, in that part of Great Brit- 
ain called Scotland." Compare this with the will of Isabel Balfour, 
who speaks of her husband Thomas Hay, Writer in Edinburgh, 
and their children : Michael, Andrew, and Jean, spouse of Dr. 
George Bethune in Cupar, Fife, and with the two documents given 
below, and it will be seen that the parentage of Michael Hay is 
established beyond any question, while that of his father Thomas 
is proved by the Factory of Andrew his brother, son of James Hay 
of Carriber, to be seen in the preceding section of this work. It 
will be recalled that Isabel Balfour-Hay d. in 1756. We now intro- 
duce these two deeds, sent by Mr. Henry Paton: — 

"1/57, January T2th.— Registration in Register of Deeds (Durie, Vol. 216) 
of Renunciation by Michael Hay, eldest lawful son and apparent heir to 
the deceased Thomas Hay, Writer in Edinburgh, narrating that he has been 
charged at the instance of Rachel and Katherine Erskine, daughter of the 
deceased Mr. Thomas Erskine, Advocate, to enter heir to the said deceased 
Thomas Hay, his father, ****** but that he, seeing that by 
serving himself heir may incur great damage, rather renounces his right 
as heir to his said father's estate and property. Dated at Kingston in the 
Island of Jamaica 27th April 1756; witnesses, Robert Forester of the Parish 
of Kingston, merchant there, and William Forbes of the said parish, gen- 
tleman." 

"17577 January nth. — Renunciation by Mrs. Jane Hay, daughter to the 
deceased Thomas Hay, Writer in Edinburgh, spouse to Dr. George Bethune, 
physician in Cupar of Fife, narrating that they have been charged at the 
instance of James Blair of Ardblair and David Green, Writer in Edinburgh, 
to enter heir to the said deceased Thomas Hay, her father, which if she do 



THE F.\M1I,\' DI- II \\- 121 

she will incur great damage thereby. Siie therefore, with her said husband's 
consent, discharges herself to enter heir to her said father. This is dated 
at Cupar, Fife, 5th January 1757. (Kdinlnirgh Deeds, Vol. 107)." 

Rachel and Lalhcrim.' l^r.skino, iiiciitioncil in the Jvenunciation 
of Michael Hay. were born the one in 1728, the other in 1729, and 
were the youngest of seven children of Thomas Erskine, advocate, 
and Rachel Libcrton. It is interesting to observe that Thomas 
Erskine, their father, was a son of Henry Erskine, third Lord 
Cardross, of Kirkhill, County Linlithgow, and of Uphall, West 
Lothian, who established a colony at l?eaiifort, Sotith Carolina, 
which was destroyed by the Spaniards. Rroken in fortinie, but not 
dispirited by misfortune, he returned to Europe, attaching himself 
to the friends of liberty in Holland. He died at Edinburgii 21 
May 1693. in the 44th year of his age. He was a distant kinsman 
of Michael Hay. 

The family of Grant in Jamaica was one of considerable dis- 
tinction. Their arms were : Gulc, a chevron eng. ermine between 
three antique crowns or. Crest, a mountain in flames, sometimes 
described as a burning hill. 

John Grant was Chief Justice of Jamaica. Sir Alexander 
Grant. Bart., was the proprietor of Charlemont Pen (grass farm), 
near Ity Sugar Estate in St. Thomas ; also one of the proprietors of 
Bryan Castle/ Great House, Trelawny, originally settled by Bryan 
Edwards, Esq., Historian of the West Indies. 

In Liber 29. Folio 67, of Jamaica Wills, is registered the testa- 
ment of the mother of Mrs. Alexander Grant of Jamaica, Ann 
Mister, widow (nee Ami Wilkins), in which "all lands owned by 
her in any ])art of tlie .world arc left to Michael Hay, in trust for 
her great-nephew, Ann Ilawkes Hay. until the latter shall become 
of age ; and five hundred pounds in cash to Isaac, son of her brother 
Martin Wilkins, deceased. In case Isaac shall survive Ann Hawkes 
Hay, then Isaac shall receive," etc. 

llliikiua 

The family of Wilkins in Jamaica was descended of an 
eminent family of that name in Wales. They were related to Oliver 
Cromwell, Protector of England, and the branch of the family 
which settled in Jamaica removed from Glamorganshire, Wales. 



122 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Judge Martin Wilkins was one of the five Assistant Judges 
for the Island under the Act of 1744, and a wealthy planter pos- 
sessed of large estates and many slaves. 

He married ist 19 Nov. 1718, Ann Pichell, the widow of John 
Sharpington, son of Benjamin Sharpington by his wife Elizabeth 
Wilsted, by whom he had an only child, Esther Wilkins, baptised 
4th July 1724, married 14 June 1743, Michael Hay, and died 25 
Aug. 1745, leaving one son Ann Hawkes Hay, of whom later. 

Judge Wilkins m. 2d on May 2d, 1733, Johanna, daughter of 
Thomas and Johanna Roberts, and granddaughter of Philip Rob- 
erts of the Parish of Vere, by whom he had children : i. Martina, 
bap. 16 Feb. 1738; ii. Isaac; iii. Philip, bap. 6 Sept. 1744; iv. 
Thomas Lindsay, bap. 7 Jan. 1746. His will is dated 1750 and 
proved 1750, when he must have died. 

The father of Judge Martin Wilkins was Isaac Wilkins, de- 
ceased, ante 1700, and his godfather was Martyn Wilkins of the 
Parish of St. Andrews, who married Mary Wilkins (vide Wills: 
Liber 9, folio 119, Jamaica records). 

Isaac Wilkins, clergyman, only surviving son of Judge Martin 
Wilkins, by his 2d wife Johanna Roberts, and half-brother of 
Esther, who married Michael Hay, was born at Withewood, 
Jamaica, W. I., 17 Dec. 1742, and d. at Westchester, N. Y., 5th Feb. 
1830. 

Sent to New York by his father to be educated, he was gradu- 
ated at Columbia University (then King's College) A. D. 1760. 

His parents dying when he was a child, his care devolved upon 
his maternal aunt, Mary Macey, wife of Thomas Macey. 

He was m. 7 Nov. 1762, to Isabella, daughter of the Hon. 
Lewis Morris, son of Lewis Morris by his wife Isabella, daughter 
of Sir John Graham. He resided at Morisania for a few years 
after marriage and then purchased an estate known as Castle Hill 
in Westchester County, N. Y., and was a member of the Colonial 
Legislature in 1772. 

When trouble arose between England and her American colo- 
nies, he boldly and openly proclaimed his allegiance to England, 
and was forced to leave the country in 1775, seeking refuge in 
England, and was allowed by the British Government an annuity 
of 125 pounds. Returning to New York before the close of the 
War of Independence, he sold his property in Westchester, and 



THE FAMILY Ol' HAY 123 

resided in Long Island until the return of peace. In 1784, he 
removed to Nova Scotia and took an active part in political affairs. 
He went back to New York again in 1794, studied for the Epis- 
copal ministry, was ordained Deacon of the Church in Westches- 
ter, A. D. 1798, and soon called to the Rectorship; was ordained 
Priest in the same church 14 January 1801, and received the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia A. D. 181 1. 

Lewis Morris Wilkins, son of Isaac Wilkins, D. D., was a 
member of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, Speaker of 
that body, and Judge of the Supreme Court. 

Lewis Morris Wilkins, Jr., son of the above, was b. 24th May 
1801 at Halifax. Nova Scotia, and d. 14 March 1885, having been 
graduated at King's College in 1819, and studied law, becoming 
an eminent Canadian Jurist. 

Among the descendants of this family in South Carolina were 
and are: Martin, Berkeley, Gouveneur, and Sarah Wilkins — the 
latter still living in Charleston. S. C, and children of Gouveneur, 
recently deceased, residing at Greenville, S. C. The first wife of 
Major Screven of South Carolina was a member of this family of 
Wilkins, his 2d wife being Miss \^an. 

mill of 3ubgp Martin aiUkina 

"In the name of God Amen. I, Martin Wilk'ns, of the Parish of St. 
Dorothy, in the Island of Jamaica, Planter, being of sound mind and mem- 
ory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and 
form following. Imprimis I will that all my just debts and funeral charges 
be paid leaving my body to be buried according to the discretion of my 
dearly beloved Executri.x hereinafter mentioned. To my much respected 
sister Ann Mister I give twenty-five pounds to buy her a suit of mourning 
being sensible that with her Estate she can want no more from mine. To 
my wife's sister Mary Macey, widow, I give a Ring of five pounds value 
for her remembrance of me. To my dear and only grandson Ann Hawkes 
Hay and to his heirs forever, not excluding any right my son may have 
after my said grandson's death, I give all the lands and Xcgro Slaves with 
their issue and increase mentioned in an Indenture Tripartite, copy here- 
with, signed by his grandmother .Ann Wilkins, Adam McQuestin, and my- 
self, the nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and nineteen, without taking advantage of any other writing, 
and without charging him, my said grandson, with the several Bonds, lare 
Debts, and a Chancery Suit I have paid since that time from my own 
Estate to satisfye the debts due from his grandmother's, the above lands 
and negroe slaves, provided no trouble, charges, or disputes, of any kind 






124 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

whatsoever by his Guardians, Himself, or Anybody in his stead, be given 
or made to my wife or son in regard to anything done by me in my life- 
time. To my dearly beloved wife Johanna Wilkins I give for ever my 
Chariot, all my plate, jewels, household furniture, and half of my ready 
Cash, with half of what money which shall any ways be due to me by mort- 
gage, bounds, notes, or accounts ; I also give to my said wife during her 
natural life and whilst she continues my widow, the one half of the rent 
of my estate both real and personal not meaning any part of the above 
remaining moiety of cash, mortgage, bonds, notes, or accounts, wheresoever 
it be in any part of the world in lieu of her thirds. All the rest of my 
Estate both real and personal I give and bequeath to my only and most 
dear son Isaac Wilkins and his heirs forever. But should he dye before he 
arrives to the age of twenty-one years or before he has legitimate issue, 
then I give to my wife and her heirs for ever all the negro slaves and 
their issue which were her property before our marriage at that time then 
living. And if both my son and grandson should dye before they 
arrive to the age of twenty-one years or before they have legitimate issue, 
so far as I have power to devise or bequeath, notwithstanding anything I 
may have said to the contrary in this Will, this is my Meaning — I then give 
to my dearly beloved wife and her heirs my whole Estate both real and 
personal forever. 

Lastly I herewith nominate and appoint my dear and good wife Johanna 
Wilkins whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. In 
witness hereof I the said Martin Wilkins have to this my last Will and 
Testament and to another of equal date Indenture and Signification in all 
respect sett my hand and seal this nineteenth day of December in the year 
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight. 

MARTIN WILKINS. 

Witnesses : — Arundel Burton, Dan Baylie, John Barjean. 
(Island Record Office, Spanish Town, Jamaica, W. I.; Wills: Lib. 28, 
f. 29.)" 

The following i.s extracted from the Indenture Tripartite, or 
99-year lease of Ann Sharpington's Estate, which was bequeathed 
by his grandfather, Martin Wilkins, to his and her grandson, Ann 
Hawkes Hay. As the lease expired not until 1819, and Colonel 
Hay died A. D. 1785, and as it is positively known to the present 
generation of Colonel Hay's descendants — some of his grandchil- 
dren still survive — that his heirs never came into this property, it 
is an interesting question to ask, What became of this property? 
May not the heirs now living have a just claim on the landed 
tracts described fully in the lease? Would such claim be barred 
by the Statute of Limitation under the English law? Would 
ignorance on the part of the heirs that they had such a claim 



1 III'. 1\\.MII.\' ()|- II \\' 125 

prevent a rlcfcnce being set up b\' the present possessors under 
the Statute of Limitation? Or were these lands confiscated by 
Great Britain? These questions are left by the descendant, the 
historian. ti> be answered l)y the descendants of the lej^al ])rofes- 
sion. 

The document is far t<X) lengthy to be given comi)lctely, but 
we extract from it tlie important parts: — 

A Ntttrtij-utnr TIrar Craar 

"Island Record Office, Spanish Town, Jamaica, W. I. Deeds, Lib, 61, 

f. 53. 

"Tliis Indenture Tripartite made tiic nineteenth daj' of January in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineteen between Martin 
Wilkins and Ann, liis wife, of the on& part, Mathias Philip ****** 
of tlie second part, and Adam McQuisting ****** Qf ^]^q third 
part ; Whereas the said Martin Wilkins and Ann his wife in right of the 
said Ann is possessed of, entitled to, and interested in several tracts of land 
and Negro Slaves in the Parish of St. Dorothy in the said Island and 
elsewhere devised to the said Ann by the last Will and Testament of John 
Sharpington, her late husband. 

Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Martin Wilkins and Ann 
his wife for the better settling and making over all the said Estate, which 
belongs to them, in right of the said Ann, and for and in consideration of 
five shillings current money of this island to them in hand ****** 
Have granted Bargained Sold aliened released and confirmed * * * * 

* * All that parcell of land containing two hundred and ten acres * * 

* * * * lying in the Parish of St. Catherine now St. Dorothy, bounded 

* 4: * 41 * * And also One other parcell of Land containing sixty 
acres ****** bounding ****** And also those two 
parcells of land the one containing by estimacion sixty acres scituate lying 

* :^ * * :^ * jj^g other parcell containing one hundred and forty acres 
bounded ****** ..And also one other parcell of land containing 
thirty-one acres lying ****** bounding ****** And 
also all that parcell of land containing by estimacion sixty acres bounding 

* * * * * ^, . jjj^j jjjgQ those negro slaves hereinafter named, that is 
to say: — John, Sam, Pant. Murry, Tom, Charles, Cesar, Quacoe, Jemmy, 
Quam, Robin, Dick, Whon, Pegg, Nanny, Venus, Jenny, Rose, Whanny, 
Dido, Molly, Betty, Mouria, Grace, Priscillas, Dinah, Yabbah, Phibbah, 
Peter, Quan, Phaenick, CufTee, Plutarch, Mercury, Hector, Bennebah, 
Clarinda, Cubba, Venus, Candice, Jibbah, Catalina, Bess ; their issue, off- 
spring, and increase. And all the other Estate which they the said Martin 
and Ann his wife are interested in or entitled to in the said Island of 
Jamaica or elsewhere in right of the said Ann his wife ***** * 
to have and to hold for the full term of Ninety Nine Years from the day 



126 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

of the date of these presents to be compleat and ended Upon the Trusts 
Limitations and Agreements hereinafter mentioned and declared concerning 
the same term and estate. 

****** for the time being of and in the premises expectant 
upon the determination of the said Term of Ninety Nine Years shall be 
the true intent and meaning of these presents belong or appertain, surrender 
and yield up the said Estate and term of Years unto such person or persons 
requiring the same. 

In Witness Whereof the parties first above named have to these presents 
interchangeably sett their hands and seals the day and year first above vi^ritten. 

- "MARTIN WILKINS, 
"ANN WILKINS, 
"ADAM McQUISTING." 

Michael Hay, Esq., m. 14th June 1743, Esther, only daughter 
of Judge Martin Wilkins by his ist wife, Ann Sharpington (nee- 
Pichell), by whom one son: — 

i. Ann Hawkes Hay, whose history follows in Section XXII. 




^tuentp-sfcconts feneration 



lOLONEL ANN HAWKES HAY, OF KINGS- 
TON, JAMAICA, WEST INDIES, was the only 
child of Michael Hay, Esq., of Edinburgh, Scot- 
land (removed to Jamaica, W. I.), by his wife 
Esther Wilkins (m. 14 June 1743), daughter of 
Judge Martin Wilkins of Jamaica Island by his 
1st wife Ann Sharpington (nee Pichell or i'itchell), relict of John 
Sharpington. Colonel Hay was b. 14th August 1745, baptised 
on the 29th of the same month and year (Kingston records), and 
died in New York on the i8tli of April, 1785, at the age of forty 
years. 

He m. 5th October 1763, Martha Smith (daughter of Judge 
William Smith, b. 1697 ^^^ the Island of Ely, England, who re- 
moved to New York in 1715), b. in New York 18 June 1745, and 
d. in South Carolina 30 March 1821, and was buried at Stoney 
Creek, near McPhersonvillc, S. C. 

Ann Hawkes Hay accompanied his half-uncle, Isaac Wilkins, 
but two years older, to New York for the purpose of being edu- 
cated, and there married while still at college. Returning to Jamai- 
ca with his bride, the young couple, both infants in the eyes of 
the law, at first lived in Kingston, but losing their first three chil- 
dren, they then settled at Haverstraw on the banks of the Hudson. 
Soon came war between America and England to disturb their 
happy and quiet life; refusing two commissions oflFered him in 
the English army. Hay united himself with the cause of the 
patriots, and throughout the seven years of struggle that ensued 
was zealous and active in support of the land of his adoption. 

In the opening years of the Revolution, he commanded a regi- 
ment of volunteers, and was entrusted with the defence of the 
western shore of the Hudson River in the vicinity of Haverstraw, 
and we find in the American Archives, Fifth Series, many letters 

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128 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

from and to him relating to his movements and those of the enemy.- 
Some of these letters are from Generals Washington and Clinton, 
others from the Legislature and Council of Safety, and prove how 
earnestly his heart and hopes were embarked in the cause of free- 
dom, how indefatigable he was in its promotion, and in what 
high esteem he was held by the leaders of the army. 

After the disbanding of his volunteers, he was appointed by 
General Washington to act as Quartermaster, and freely sacrificed 
his own fortune in providing for the needs of the Continental 
army. It is a tradition in the family that thus was his property 
in New York spent, and that what claims he had on lands still in 
Jamaica were lost to him by confiscation when he cast in his lot 
with the Americans. 

It may be seen by following the births of his younger children 
born during the War of Independence, he is sometimes stationed 
at different points of the Hudson, and at others in New Jersey. 

He is most cornplimentarily mentioned (we are told) in Pauld- 
ing's Life of Washington, and William Abbatt in "The Crisis of 
the American Revolution" pays a handsome tribute to Colonel Hay. 

When the war ended in 1783, Colonel Hay's American prop- 
erty had been lost, except a share in the Dean Patent, which will 
be considered presently, and his Jamaica 'possessions, it is stated,, 
were confiscated by the English Government. 

He had no time to recover from the state of desolation in 
which his fortunes were left by his sacrifices and losses in the 
war, for he died in 1785 in New York City, leaving a helpless 
widow, the daughter of wealth and affluence, and eight surviving 
children, the eldest but seventeen years of age and the youngest 
one month old. 

Judge William Smith, the father of Mrs. Hay, had died in 
1769; William Smith, her elder brother, had proclaimed himself 
a loyalist and was now Chief Justice of Canada; Joshua Hett 
Smith, another brother, was suspected (unjustly) of having been 
the accomplice of General Arnold, and had removed to England, 
where he married Miss Middleton ; the home at Haverstraw had 
been burned during the war ; the claims resulting from Colonel 
Hay's portion of the Dean Patent (60,000 acres on Grand Island 
and the shores of Lake Champlain) were in the possession of 
"squatters" and in litigation. Thus it happened that this was a 



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period of struj^glc witli lliis family, and while one brother, the 
eldest, remained in New \'urk, where his descendants are now to 
be found, the remaining brothers came South, to Alabama and 
South Carolina. 

In South Carolina, one of these brothers practiced law in 
Beaufort, marricil, and sent on for his mother and youngest brother, 
who later made a home in Barnwell District, married and left 
many children. Descendants of these and of a third brother, who 
followed later to South Carolina, are now scattered over the State, 
having always been held in high esteem, and made useful and, in 
some cases, eminent citizens of this country. 

The professions and avocations of these descendants of Colo- 
nel Hay are as varied as tiieir homes. Some are found in the high 
calling of the ministry, others are practitioners at the bar, many 
are skillful physicians, some insurance men, some fill chairs of 
learning at the leading educational institutions of the land, some 
are authors and some artists, while others are planters, directing 
their efforts to making two blades grow in soil that was wont to 
produce but one. 

Living in an era of commercialism, not emulating others in 
their mad rush for wealth gained too often by sharp practice and 
founded too frequently on another's happiness, they are content to 
live uprightly and modestly, holding their won! sacred as their bond. 

All of this family in South Carolina that spring from the 
Hays of Erroll and Lochloy, are lovers of the beautiful in music, 
poetry, and art. Interpreting into language the hidden harmonies 
of the forest and its denizens, or giving expression to the lofty 
emotions of the mind, and the softer feelings of the heart, they 
reveal the beauty of the souls of things in nature and set to music 
melodies that lie beneath mere physical sound, translating that life 
which shines behind the outer world acting as a veil to hide its 
innate beauty from sight of the profane. 

On July II, 17^19, letters patent were issued by King George 
III. to A. Ilawkes Hay, Samuel Smith, his brother-in-law, and 
others, for 13.500 acres of land in Dean's Patent, in the town of 
Chazy, in wdiat is now Clinton County. State of New York, and 
15.500 acres in what is now known as South Hero Island, in Lake 
Champlain. which island belongs to \>rmont. This island was 
formerly called Grand Island. Clinton was divided from Wash- 



I30 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

ington County in 1788, and Washington from Tryon County in 
1784. In the year 1800, after the death of Colonel Hay, this grant 
was visited by his sons, Michael and Thomas. They found that 
portion of the lands located on Grand Isle (formerly Hero Island) 
occupied under grants from Vermont — this being a part of 
the disputed territory which had caused the colonial war between 
New York and New Hampshire, in which Ethan Allen first came 
into prominence. 

Another section lying along Lake Champlain they found occu- 
pied by citizens of French descent claiming the land by right of 
possession, and likewise under the Treaty between Great Britain 
and France conveying the Canadas and other disputed territory 
to England, but stipulating that French citizens should remain in 
possession of lands acquired and enjoyed by them previous to 
the war. 

Michael made terms with some of these "squatters" and set- 
tlers, taking possession of what had been unoccupied, and his 
descendants are still living in that part of New York. In making 
these terms the sons of Colonel Hay acted under the legal advice 
of Aaron Burr, who had studied law in the office of their uncle, 
Joshua Hett Smith, and who on one occasion had risked his own 
life to save that of young Samuel Hay, who had fallen down a 
well at Haverstraw, his father's home. 

From the number of deeds relating to Ann Hawkes Hay in 
Jamaica, copied by Mrs. Graham from the records at Spanish 
Town, we here give abstracts of a few. It will be remembered 
that Walter Richmond married Isabella, the sister of Colonel Hay, 
and was made his guardian after the decease of John McLean, 
who, with Henry Livingstone, was guardian under Michael's will. 

We introduce a few of these abstracts of deeds registered in 
Jamaica : — 

"Lib. 136, fol. 172, 24th Aug. 1749.— Michael Hay of St. AnBrews, Gen- 
tleman, transfers to John Bar jean et ux. et al. the house Elizabeth Villears 
bought of Edward Morris in Orange St., Kingston, lately occupied by Dr. 
Copeland. Mentions his (3d) wife Elizabeth Hay, nee Webb, widow of 
Archibald Campbell." 

"28th Nov. 1749. Lib. 140, fol. 8;.— Michael Hay of St. Dorothy, wife 
Elizabeth, and Ann Mister, widow, deed certain property to Adam Mc- 
Quisting. Mentions Mary Campbell of Scotland." 



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IIIK 1-AMlLV OF HAY 131 

"Lib. 155, fol. 89. — Michael Hay, planter of St. Dorothy, Jasper Hall, 
and John Grant deed 380 acres of land in St. David to Andrew Ronaldson. 
Witness : James Alves." 

"19th Dec. i"-|8. — Martin Wilkins, Esq., of St. Dorothy, et ux. Johanna 
lease lands to William Good for 15 years. Refers to Indenture made 19th 
Jan. 1719, etc. Further sets forth that reversion or remainder of the said 
* « :4c « * * hcinp in .'\nn llawkes I lay, a minor of the age of three 
years, the son of Michael Hay who intermarried with his only child and 
daughter who is now deceased, of the said Martin and Ann his wife, and 
the grandson of tlie said Martin Wilkins." 

"Lib. 142, fol. 124. 4th Apl. 1750. — Ann Mister, widow, of St. Andrews, 
deeds lands to John Tod, merchant of Kingston, to the use of Michael Hay 
of the parish of St. Dorothy, planter, during the term of his natural life. 
After Michael's decease, John Tod must convey lands unto Ann Hawkes 
Hay, son of said Michael Hay by Esther his late wife, niece to the said 
Ann Mister." 

"Lib. 162, fol. 108. 1st Feb. 1756. — Ann Hawkes Hay, a minor, by his 
duly appointed guardian, Michael Hay, planter, leases for 11 years to John 
Bird, gentleman of St. Dorothy, Hawkes Hill, 81 acres in St. Dorothy, etc." 

"Lib. 163, fol. 24. 1st March 1756.— Ann Hawkes Hay, a minor, of the 
age of ten years, or thereabouts, by IMichael Hay, Gentleman of Kingston 
duly appointed Guardian of his person and Estate, leases 300 acres of land 
in St. Dorothy called Sharpington Mountain, etc., to John Bonner, for seven 
years." 

"Lib. 223, fol. 21. 9th Feb. 1767. — Ann Hawkes Hay of Kingston, and 
Martha his wife, deed to John Allen, Gent, of Kingston, certain lands. 
Mentions will of Ann Mister dated 6th July 1752, devising her entire estate 
to Michael Hay in trust for Ann Hawkes Hay. Said lands are described 
as Hunt's Bay Pen, etc. Also Lots 445 and 446 in Kingston— Orange St." 

"Lib. 175, ful. 68. 28th Jan. 1759.— Michael Hay, Esq., administrator 
of the Estate of the Hon. Martin Wilkins, and guardian of his son Isaac 
Wilkins, a minor, leases certain lands to Anna Spencer, widow, of St. 
Andrews, and mentions Indenture between John Laugher et ux. Susannah, 
and Martin Wilkins, dated ist July 1742." 

"Lib. 193, fol. 21. 27th Nov. I759-— Michael Hay, Esq., of Kingston, 
deeds to Thomas Wilson, merchant, his late (3d) wife, Elizabeth's interest 
in several dwelling houses in parish and town of Kingston, etc. Mentions 
Indenture made 25th Nov. 1742 by John & Priscilla Inncs, Martha, widow 
of Hugh Williams, and Elizabeth Webb— later wife of Michael Hay (these 
three were sisters)." 

"Lib. 181, fol. no. 30th Apl. 1760— Michael Hay, Esq., of Kingston, 
leases to William Stevenson, Esq., of St. James, for seven years from ist 
May 1760, 200 acres of land with buildings, etc., at Hunt's Bay in Parish 
of St. Andrews, called Hunt's Bay Pen ; also a tract of Scotch Grass Land ; 
also land adjoining Port Royal grass lots in Parish of Port Royal; also 



132 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

the dwelling house now occupied by Michael Hay in Orange St., Kingston; 
also 136 slaves duly named and appraised. 

"The annual rent to be 1333 pounds, to be paid to Michael Hay, his heirs 
or Assigns." (This rent is annual interest on $100,000 worth of property. 
Michael died A. D. 1762, and this property is devised to his son Ann 
Hawkes Hay. It would appear that later a suit is entered against the 
Estate of Michael Hay by Isaac Wilkins, and by decree of Court of Chan- 
cery, this property is ordered for sale, but Ann Hawkes is permitted to 
redeem it by sale of other property. This Decree was made 20th Feb. 
1765, and we now find record of the following sales by Ann Hawkes Hay, 
presumably to pay off the claim against the above Estate.) 

"19th July 1765. Lib. 215, fol. 34. — Ann Hawkes Hay, Gentleman of 
Kingston, Jamaica, an infant (in law) by Walter Richmond his Guardian, 
deeds three negro slaves. Prince, Orenoque, and Blackwell, etc." 

"Lib. 214, fol. 145. 1st Mch. 1765. — Ann Hawkes Hay, Esq., of Kings- 
ton, an infant, by Walter Richm.ond his guardian, and Martha Hay his 
■wife, also an infant, and Walter Richmond in right of Isabella his wife, 
and sister of Ann Hawkes Hay, beneficiaries under the will of Michael Hay, 
deed to Robert Law, 3 slaves, etc." 

"Lib. 122, fol. 137. 1766. Deed of Gift. — 'Know all men by these pres- 
ents that I, Hawky Hay, Planter of St. Andrew, deed 1J/2 acres of land 
to, etc." 

"Lib. 222, fol. 169. 9th Jan. 1768.— Ann Hawkes Hay, Esq, of Kingston, 
and Martha his wife, deed negro slaves to, etc." 

"Lib. 218, fol. 116. 19th July 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay through guardian 
deeds to William Murray, Esq., of Kingston, Lot No. 1172 for no pounds." 

"Lib. 217, fol. 23. ist Mch. 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay through guardian 
deeds slave Nannie to Margaret Smith, spinster, for 50 pounds." 

"Lib. 217, fol. 24. I St Mch. 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay through guardian 
deeds to John Allen the following negro slaves:— Venus, Teresia, Cuba 
and her two little children Charlotte and Charles, for 200 pounds." 

"Lib. 215, fol. 41. 19th July 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay through guardian 
deeds negro slave Henrietta to, etc., for 37 pounds." 

"Lib. 216, fol. 45. 19th July 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay through guar- 
dian deeds two slaves to Alexander Forbes, Gentleman of Kingston, for 

151 pounds." 

"19th July 1765.— Ann Hawkes Hay, etc., deeds two slaves to Thomas 

Ingles for 102 pounds." 

"Ann Hawkes Hay through guardian Walter Richmond, deeds property 
to Mr. Nunes and Mr. Silva, for 40 pounds. Mentions death of his guar- 
dian John McLean." 

"Lib. 225, fol. 163. 22d Dec. 1767.— Ann Hawkes Hay and wife Martha 
deed Hunt's Bay Pen to Philip Livingstone Esq. of Kingston." 

"Lib. 244, fol. 3. 1 2th Nov. 1 771. —Ann Hawkes Hay, Esq., of Kings- 
ton, and Martha his wife, deed to Wm. Patrick Browne 108 acres of land 



Till'". I \MII.Y OI- HAY 133 

and 50 acres of mountain land. Mentions Capt. Thomas Fuller's Pen." 
This is the last mention of Ann Hawkes Hay in records of Jamaica. 
Under marriages in Jamaica we select tlie following sent us 

by Mrs. Graham, and relating to Colonel Hay's family: — 

"Alexander Grant of Westmoreland to Martha Mister A. D. 1730." 
"Martin Wilkins to Johanna Roberts 2d May I733-" 
"Benj. Sharpington to Elizabeth Wilsted 14th July 1693." 
"Martin Wilkins to Ann Sharpington, widow, 16 Apl. 1719" 
"John Sharpington to Ann Pitchell, 19 Nov. 1718." 
"Michael Hay to Esther Wilkins, 14 June 1743-" 
"Walter Richmond to Isabella Hay, 15th May 1763." 
"Martin Wilkins (god-father of Judge Martin Wilkins) to Mary Wil- 
kins, 20 Jan. i6gi." 

llu^rr UirtlfB an^ SaptiamB 

"Martina, dau. of Martin and Johanna Wilkins, 16 Feb. 1738." 

"Philip, son to same, 6th Sept. 1744." 

"Thomas Lindsay, son to same, 7th Jan. 1746." 

"Esther, dau. of Martin & Ann Wilkins, 4 July 1724-" 

"Ann Hawkes Hay, son of Michael and Esther Hay, 14 June 1745." 

"Ann Mister Hay, dau. of Ann Hawkes and Martha Hay, 14 July 1765." 

"Mary Hay, dau. of the same, b. 6 Nov. 1766." 

3Fram tljr IIrrnr^ nf Jlntrrmrnta 

"Esther, spouse of Michael Hay, was bu. in the Church, 25th Aug. 1745." 
"Elizabeth, 2d spouse of Michael Hay, bu. in churchyard, 11 Sept. 1755." 
"Michael Hay, Esq., was bu. in the Church, 13th Feb. 1762." 
"Martha, spouse of Alexander Grant, ob. 17th Nov. 1733." 
"Isabella, spouse of Walter Richmond, bu. in the Church, 26 Feb. 1772." 

\\'liatever property Ann Hawkes Hay possessed in Jamaica 
when the Revolutionary War began, seems to have been forfeited 
as the result of his adherence to the cause of the American colo- 
nists ; fortune was the price paid by this young Scotchman for 
devotion to the principles of liberty. At the close of the war he 
was a poor man. The following extracts are taken from the New 
York State Archives : — 

"Proceedings of the Provincial Congress, Committee of Safety, and 
Convention of New York, Relating to Military Matters: — 

(Pages 61 and 62 of New York in The Revolution by Bertholdt Fernow) 

A. M. Feb. i6th, 1776. 

"A letter from Andrew Onderdonck, Chairman of the Committee of the 
Haverstraw Precinct dated 30th January 1776 was read and filed, contain- 
ing the following list of names of officers nominated for the Regiment of 



134 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

mmm at tlpt l^ntmtt 

Ann Hawkes Hay, Colonel. 

Isaac Sherwood, Lieut.-Colonel. 

John Smith, ist Major. 

William Ryder, Adjutant. 

Garrett Onderdonck, Quartermaster. 

"Ordered that commissions be made out for the Field and other Officers 
of the Militia in the Precinct of Haverstraw. ****** 

"Ordered that Colonel Brasher, Mr. Scott, Mr. Wickham, Colonel Hay, 
Colonel Drake, Colonel P. Ten Broeck, Mr. Rhea, Colonel Nicoll, Mr. 
Moore, Mr. Vanderbilt, and Doctor Williams be a committee to settle the 
quota or number of men and officers under the rank of Field Officers to be 
raised in the different counties in this colony to constitute the Four Regi- 
ments ordered to be raised for the Continental Service, and defence of this 
colony, and that said committee report with all convenient speed." 

"Die Solis loth Ho. A. M. Feb. i8th, 1776. 

"Colonel Hay from the Committee appointed to apportion the different 
quotas of men and officers under the rank of Field Officers to be raised in 
the different counties of this Colony to form four regiments ordered to 
be raised in this Colony, delivered in their report, which was read, and the 
same being read a second time and filed, is in the words following, to wit : — 

" 'Your Committee appointed to levy the Quotas of Men to be raised 
in the different counties of this colony for the service of the United Colo- 
nies, report that it is their opinion that the number of men that can be 
raised in each county is as follows : — 

"'New York, 8 companies; Albany, 5 companies; Charlotte, i company; 
Dutchess, 4 companies; Westchester, 2 companies; Suffolk, 3 companies; 
Queen, i company; Kings and Richmond, i company; Orange, 2 companies; 
Ulster, 2 companies — in all 32 companies. — Is humbly submitted by your 
committee. 

"'(Signed) Ann Hawkes Hay, Chairman.' 

"The Congress agreed with the Committee in their said report." 

"From New York in the Revolution as Colony and State by James A. 
Roberts, Comptroller, 2d Edition, Albany, 1898, p. 157. 

"Orange County Militia — 2d Regiment : — 

"Colonel, Ann Hawkes Hay; Lieut.-Col., Gilbert Cooper; Major, John 
Smith; Major, John L. Smith; Adjutant, James D. Clark; Quartermaster, 
Joseph Johnson ; Surgeon, John Ferrand," and goes on to name 12 Captains, 
16 Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, and about 1,000 privates among which appear the 
names of: — 

"Gardner, William Sickles, Matthias Conklin, Jacob Sickles, John Coe, 
William Conklin, Dowah and James and John Vanderbilt, Adolph and Peter 
Wanamaker, John Backman, Samuel Bird, about 30 bearing the name Blau- 
vclt, four of the name Garrison, James Horton, Richard Howard, about 
thirty of the name Conckling and Conklin, about 15 of the name Cooper, six 



THE FAMH.Y OF II W 135 

of the name Dcmarcst, Peter Depow, Cornelius and John Depue, six of the 
name Campl)ell, 12 of the name Coe, Jolni llutson, eiglit of the name Jones, 
ten of the name Mabic, Joel Mead, Charles and Jacob and Salvcnas and 
Mordica Mott, about fifteen of the name Onderdonck, six of the name Post, 
Joseph Roscvclt, ten of the name Secor, twenty of the name Smith, Charles 
Stewart, six of the name Springstein, four Snyder, six Tallman, and many 
others." 

The above are some of the names constituting the 2d Regi- 
ment of Orange County \'ohmteers, commanded by Colonel Ann 
Hawkes Hay, and rendering important services on the Hudson 
River during the ist year of the War of the American Revolu- 
tion. The complete list may be seen in the publication appearing 
at the head of this extract. Many of these names have since been 
conspicuous in the history of the United States, in financial and 
political circles. 

The following extracts from "IMilitary Minutes of the Coun- 
cil of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821," relate 
to three sons of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay : — 

"P. 148. Anno 1788. Orange County. In Lieut-Colonel John Robert's 
regiment, Michael Hay is mentioned as an Ensign." 

"P. 218. Anno 1792. In Lieut-Col. David Burno's regiment, Thomas 
Hay is mentioned as Adjutant." 

P. 258. A. D. 1793. In Brig-Gen. Hathome's brigade, in Lieut-Col. Com- 
mandant Seth Marvin's regiment, is mention of Michael Hay as Lieutenant." 

"P- 33~- Anno 1796. Orange County. Michael Hay is mentioned as 
Justice of the Peace." 

"P. 617. Anno 1802. Orange County. Mention of a new troop of Horse 
in Gen. Wueisncis' Brigade, Samuel Smith, Captain, and Thomas Hay ist 
Lieutenant." 

"P. 731. Anno 1804. Washington County. In David Gray's regiment, 
mention is made of William Hay as Ensign ;" and on "page 875, it is stated 
that said William Hay is promoted to Lieutenant." 

It has been stated at the beginning of this section that Colonel 
Ann Hawkes Hay married Martha Smith in New York, both 
eighteen years of age. Her lineage will be found in the followmg 
sketches, published in the records of The Historical Society of 
New York: — 

3FamnuB Nrm ^nrk Familtfa — (Ibr ^mitha 

"Five generations of college men, whereof each has supplied distinguished 
lawyers to the community, is the simple but magnificent record of the Smith 
Family of New York. 



136 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

"It has enjoyed the advantages of weaUh, is connected with the old 
Knickerbocker blood, and through legal, medical, and literary services 
stamped itself upon the chronicles of the State. 

1. William (i) the soldier, was b. in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, 

England, but removed thence, and settled at Newport Pagnell, 
Buckinghamshire, where he d. about 1682. 

He m. Elizabeth Hartley of Lancashire, by whom he had five 
sons and one daughter : — i. William ; ii. James ; iii. John ; iv. 
Samuel ; v. Thomas ; from whom descend the New York branch ; 
vi. Christiana. 

Of these sons, the eldest, William, removed to Jamaica, West 
Indies, and settled at Port Royal ; he m. Frances Peartree, 
daughter of Colonel Wm. Peartree, mayor of New York in 
1703 ; and from him descend the "Peartree Smiths," who played 
an important part in the Empire State during the Eighteenth 
Century — one of these Catherine, m. the Hon. Elisha Boudinot 
of New Jersey." 

2. Thomas Smith, sth and youngest son of William the Soldier, was 

b. 1675, at Newport Pagnell. He married Susannah Odell, and 
came to America with his three sons A. D. 1715, and im- 
mediately set about building the first Presbyterian Church in 
New York. He d. 1745 a man of large means. By his wife 
Susannah, he had the following children : — i. William, ii. 
Thomas, who owned a large tract of land in Orange County 
at Smith's Cove, now Turner's Station, on the Erie Railroad ; 
iii. the Rev. John Smith, b. 5 May 1702, Minister at White 
Plains, where he d. 1771 — one of his daughters married the 
Rev. Benjamin Talmadge of Brookhaven, L. I., and was the 
mother of Colonel Benjamin Talmadge of Revolutionary fame; 
iv. Odell, who d. young; v. Elizabeth, who m. Thomas Herbert 
of England ; vi. Martha Smith, who married Edward Roberts. 

3. Judge William Smith, eldest son of Thomas, was b. A. D. 1697, at 

Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. 

He accompanied his father to America in 1715, settling at 
New York City, and became known as one of the great men of 
the period. Eighteen years of age when he arrived in America, 
he immediately entered Yale College, from which he was 
graduated in 1719, and took the degree of Master of Arts at 
that institution A. D. 1722. Acting as Professor at Yale for 
several years while studying law, he declined the Presidency of 
the institution and opened a law office in New York City A. D. 
1724, and from this point on, until his death A. D. 1769, was a 
leading figure in colonial life, appearing in nearly every litiga- 
tion of importance, and being a leader in each political issue, in 
politics a Whig — an advocate of the people against the Crown. 



THE 1 AMILY OF HAY 137 

With James Alexander, he defended John Peter Zenger, 
editor of the New York Weekly Journal, when Zenker was 
acquitted, 1735, and the liberties of the press preserved. For 
the hold stand he took in this trial, he was disbarred for two 
years by a tyrannical judge. 

In 1736, he was Recorder; in 1748, one of the Incorporators 
of Princeton College, drawing up its first charter and the draft 
of the second, remaining to the end of life one of the most 
influential and honored members of the board. 

The cause of higher education in New York being neglected 
in those days, the first steps toward a better condition were 
taken by Judge Smith, William Alexander, and three members 
of the Morris family. In the year 1754, with a number of dis- 
tinguished friends, he arranged plans for a public library, ob- 
tained the charter, and started what is now the New York 
State Library. 

The year 1751 saw him appointed Attorney-General; two 
years later he was a member of the Council, the following year 
was chosen one of the four representatives from New York to 
the General Congress at Albany. In 1760, the office of Chief 
Justice was oflFered him, but declined. 

Three years later he accepted the position of Judge of the 
Supreme Court of the Province, which office he held until his 
death. 

His educational ideas were applied to the training of his chil- 
dren, and all were good French and German scholars, all thor- 
ouglily versed in English literature, the sons versed in Greek 
and Latin and possessed of a fair knowledge of Hebrew. 

He married Mary, daughter of Rene and Blanche Het, Hugue- 
not emigre. From Baird's "History of the Huguenots." 
Vol. 2d, p. 28, we extract the following : — .\bout the same time 
there arrived in the City of New York an interesting family 
from Marcnnes, in France. Jacques Dubois had held an im- 
portant office under the Government of France when compelled 
at the Revocation to flee from the country. He left Marennes 
with his young wife Blanche Sauzeau, and their infant daughter, 
and an orphan boy named Daniel Mesnard, who had been com- 
mitted to his care. The fugitives made their way first to Am- 
sterdam, thence to Martinique Island in the West Indies, and 
finally to New York, where Dubois soon after died. His widow 
survived him only a few months. Their daughter Blanche grew 
up and became the wife of Rene Het; the orphan Daniel Mes- 
nard, when arrived at man's estate, married the daughter of 
Francois Vincent, and founded a family still extant. * * ♦ 
* * * Rene Het emigrated also to New York from La 
Rochclle, France, A. D. 1681. He was a son of Joshua and Sarah 



138 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Het of La Rochelle, was a merchant of New York, and agent 
in that city, with Andre Fresneau, of the Royal West Indies 
Company of France (vide Historical Magazine of New York, 
New Series, Vol. IV, p. 266). 

Judge William Smith, by his wife Mary, had the following 
children : — 

i. William Smith, b. 18 June 1728; d. in Quebec 3d Dec. 

1793. He m. Janet, daughter of James Livingstone of 
New York and sister of Robert R. Livingstone of 
Clermont, by whom he had ten children. Believing 
rebellion to be a crime, he declared himself a loyalist 
in the war of 1776, but refused to take up arms against 
his countrymen. Residing on Long Island during the 
war, he was the friend and adviser of Clinton, and was 
sent as a commissioner to try and save the life of the 
noble and unfortunate Major Andre. 

After the War for Independence had ended, he was 
made Chief Justice of Canada, to which province he 
removed, where he died. He wrote "Smith's History of 
New York," edited by his son. 
ii. Susannah Smith, b. 24th Dec. 1729. She married 
Robert James Livingstone of New York, eldest son of 
James and Maria Livingstone, and had among other 
children : — Mary Livingstone, who married Captain 
Gabriel Maturin of the British Army; Colonel William 
S. Livingstone, a brave and gallant officer of the Revo- 
lution, known from his reckless daring as "Fighting 
Bill," who married Catherine Lott ; Susannah Living- 
stone, born 30th July 1758, and married the Rev. James 
Francis Armstrong, who was pastor for thirty years of 
the 1st Presbyterian Church in Trenton, N. J.; Robert 
James Livingstone, Jr., who joined the American Army 
at the age of sixteen, and was severely wounded at 
the Battle of Trenton ; the Hon. Peter R. Livingstone, 
b. 1766, d. at his residence, "Grassmere," near Rhine- 
beck, A. D. 1847, was member of the State Senate from 
Dutchess County, and of the Constitutional Convention 
A. D. 1821, and married Joanna, daughter of Judge 
Robert R. Livingstone (one of whose daughters married 
General William Montgomery, killed at Quebec) ; Judge 
Maturin Livingstone, who was graduated at Prince- 
ton, was a very distinguished man, and married Mar- 
garet, only daughter of Morgan Lewis (a famous gen- 
eral in the War of the Revolution and Governor of 
New York), by Gertrude, daughter of Judge Robert R. 
and Margaret Beekman-Livingstone — they had among 



THE FAMILY OF II \V 139 

other children : — Julia, b. 1801 and m. Major Joseph 
Dclaficld ; Gertrude Livingstone, who m. Major Rawlins 
Lowndes, Susan Livingstone, m. William T. Lowndes, 
Margaret A. Livingstone, m. Alexander A. Hamilton, 
son of James A. Hamilton, and Blanche Livingstone, 
who married Lydig M. Hoyt. 

iii. Mary Smith, b. 26th March 1732, married John Smith 
and left one daughter, Mary Smith, who married Rich- 
ard Bancker. 

iv. Sarah Smith, b. 3d Aug. 1733, married the Rev. Abra- 
ham Ketcltas of Jamaica, Long Island, and died r2th 
Oct. 1815. 

V. Thomas Smith the Patriot, b. 11 Mch. 1734 and died 
1795. He was a member of the Committee of Safety 
and of the Provincial Congress of New York. He 
married Elizabeth Lynsen, by whom he had a large 
family. 

One of his daughters married John C. Spencer, Sec- 
retary of War, and their son was hanged at sea by a 
brutal captain for an alleged conspiracy of mutiny. It 
is said that the unfortunate young man only planned 
a practical joke to frighten a tyrant who was a cruel 
martinet in his discipline of the crew. The sudden an- 
nouncement of liis death is said to have cost the life 
of his lovely mother, and the reason of a first cousin 
Sarah, daughter of Joshua Hett Smith, who died in 
South Carolina and was buried at the Boiling Springs, 
ten miles south of Barnwell C. H. 

Another daughter married William Denning of New 
York. 

A son Thomas Smith, married Mary, daughter of 
John Taylor, died at his home in Ilaverstraw, N. Y., 
A. D. 1815, and among other childrcrv, left a son John 
Taylor Smith, one of the most prominent lawyers of 
Rockland County, who left a son : — Charles Bainbridge 
Smith, a prominent lawyer in New York, and the pres- 
ent representative of the family in that city. 

vi. Elizabeth Blanche Smith, who m. John Torrans of 
South Carolina, and is buried there in the Circular 
Churchyard. 

vii. Dr. James Smith, b. 1738; graduated at Princeton and 
received the best medical education in Europe. 

He was active in establishing the Chair of Materia 
Mcdica and Chemistry at Columbia College, New York, 
which college (then King's) was founded largely by his 
father Judge William Smith. He married a wealthy 



140 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

widow, Mrs. Alexander of Jamaica, and left childrerr.- 
viii. Anne Smith, who married Mr. Bostwick of New 

York. 
ix. John Smith, b. 1741, a lawyer of New York. 
X. Catherine Smith, m. John Gordon of South Carolina. 
xi. Martha Smith, b. 18 June 1744, m. Colonel Ann 

Hawkes Hay. Their children are given presently, 
xii. Samuel Smith, b. A. D. 1745. He died unmarried 
xiii. Margaret Smith, married Alexander Rose of Charles- 
ton, S. C, and was grandmother of Dr. Arthur Rose 
of that city, whose children are still living there. 

Alexander Rose was a lineal descendant of the family 

of Rose, barons of Kilravock, Nairnshire, Scotland, and 

of Lilias Hay, of the same stock as Colonel Ann Hawkes 

Hay, who married Martha Smith above, the sister of 

Margaret Smith. 

It seems a strange chance that two young Scotchmen whose families 

had several times intermarried in their native country, whose ancestral castles 

— Inshoch and Kilravock — were but a few miles apart, probably without 

knowledge of the many ties that bound them in kinship, should marry sisters 

in a foreign land. The posterity of both Ann Hawkes Hay and Alexander 

Rose now live in South Carolina. 

xiv. Joshua Hett Smith, b. 27th May 1749, was admitted 
to the bar A. D. 

Aaron Burr studied law for a time in his office. Act- 
ing under his orders, at a time when no one suspected 
Arnold's good faith. Smith, who was living at Haver- 
straw in the house of his brother Thomas the Patriot, 
went out into the Hudson with two oarsmen to meet 
the Vulture, received Major Andre into his boat, and 
escorted him to the shore for the memorable interview 
with the traitor of the Revolution. 

When the Vulture was fired on by Colonel Living- 
stone — a cousin of Smith — and dropped farther down the 
the river, it was but common courtesy to invite Andre- 
to his house. 

The following day he was requested by Arnold, the 
commanding officer of that district whom all trusted, 
to conduct his guest back to the British lines. Ignorant 
of the nature of Andre's mission, he obeyed Arnold's 
order, rode with Andre for a short distance up the 
Hudson, then crossed the stream and escorted him down 
on the eastern side, leaving him when he deemed it 
safe, and returning to his brother-in-law, Colonel Hay's- 
headquarters, quietly prepared to pass the night in com- 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 141 

pany with his wife who was staying with her sister- 
in-law, Martha Hay. 

It was due to the foresiglit of Colonel Talmadgc — 
also a cousin of Smith — that Andre, when captured, was 
not delivered a prisoner to General Arnold. Smith was 
rudely arrested in the presence of his wife at the house 
of Colonel Hay, charged with treason, and she never 
recovered from the shock, but died in consequence. 

Tried and acquitted before a military court of all 
complicity in Arnold's treachery. Smith yet found it 
necessary to leave the country and go to England, where 
he wrote his book, and married his second wife, Miss 
Middleton. His later life was embittered by the con- 
sciousness that many believed in his guilt — we are, alas! 
too prone to believe evil of others — and many even 
now hold him to have been a traitor and Arnold's ac- 
complice. 

He was the innocent victim of Arnold and circum- 
stantial evidence; unjustly is his memory clouded by 
the suspicion of disloyalty and treason. 

He had one child, Sarah Smith, who married her 
cousin Thomas, a son of Colonel Hay, and with two of 
her daughters she passed the last days of her life at 
the "Boiling Springs," in Barnwell County, S. C, her 
mind clouded by the sad death of her cousin, young 
Spencer, and her grave may be seen from the window 
of the cottage in which we are writing this sketch of 
her father. 

His descendants are honored citizens of South Car- 
olina. 

Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, by his wife Martha Smith, had the 
following children — the record is copied from the Family Bible 
of one of his grandchildren, and is as follows: — 

i. William Richmond, their first son, was born on Monday morning 

about half past nine o'clock, July 30th, 1764, in the City of Xew 
York, and baptised in the house on the same day, by the Rev. 
Joseph Treat, minister of the Presbyterian Church of the City 
of New York. He died 27th Sept., 1766, and was buried in the 
churchyard in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, at the age of 
two years. 

ii. Ann Mister Hay, their ist daughter, was born on Thursday morn- 
ing, at 5 o'clock, II July, 1765, in Kingston, Jamaica, and was 
baptised in the house on Sunday, the 14th of the same month, 
by the Rev. Mr. Atkins, rector of the Church of England, in 



142 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Kingston. Her god-father was Walter Richmond, and her 
god-mothers were Isabella Richmond and Louisa Pelton. 

She died 27th Oct., 1766, and was buried in the same grave 
with her brother. 
iii. Mary Hay, their 2d daughter, was born on Thursday, noon at i 
o'clock, 6th Nov., 1766, in Kingston, Jamaica, and was baptised 
at the house by the Rev. Mr. Hudson, curate of the Church of 
England in Kingston. 

Her god-father was Mr. Nathaniel Grant, and her god-mothers 
were Mary Fitch and Mrs. Grant. 

She died 27th November, 1767, and was buried in the grave 
with her brother and sister. 

iv. Michael Hay, their second son, was born on Saturday night, at 
10 minutes before 12 o'clock, 30th July, 1768, in the City of New 
York and was baptised the next day by the Rev. Joseph Treat, 
minister of the Presbyterian Church of New York. 

(His posterity are now living in New York, near Chazy, Clin- 
ton County.) 

V. William Smith Hay, their 3d son, was born on Monday evening, 
at 15 minutes after 6 o'clock, i8th December, 1769, at Cornwall, 
Orange County, and was baptised in the house on Sunday, the 
24th of the same month, by the Rev. Maffat Schonemack in the 
Province of New York. 

He died on the 24th October, 1778, and was buried under a 
large chestnut tree at Haverstraw on the Hudson, in the County 
of Orange. 

vi. Samuel Hay, their 4th son, vjas born on Sunday evening near 9 
o'clock, on the 8th of September, 1771, and was baptised in the 
house by the Rev. John Rodger, D.D., assistant to Mr. Treat of 
the Presbyterian Church of New York. 

He d. sth May, 1804, and bu. at Grimball Hill, near Coosa- 
whatchie, S. C. 

He m. 22 June, 1797, Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Colonel John 
Kenney. 

vH. Thomas Hay, their 5th son, was born on Monday evening, 15 min- 
utes before 6 o'clock, the 25th of October, 1773, at Haverstraw, 
in the County of Orange, and was baptised in the house on Sun- 
day, the 28th of November, by the Rev. Joseph Treat, minister 
of the Presbyterian Church, in the City of New York. 

viii. Janet Scott Hay, their 3d daughter, was born on Friday, 15 min- 
utes after i o'clock, 3d of November, 1775, at Haverstraw, in 
Orange County, and was baptised in the house by the Rev. 
Joseph Treat on Thursday, the 28th of November. 

(She married Mr. Campbell and removed to Louis- 
iana.) 



THE I-AMILY ()!• HAY 143 

ix. Martha Hay, their 41 li daiiglitor, was born on Sunday at i o'clock 
p. m. on the 22d of November, 1777, at Ringwood Iron Works, 
in the State of New Jersey, and was baptised by the Rev. Mr. 
Hoyet, at Haverstraw on May the 30th, 1778. 

X. Lewis Scott Hay, their sixth son, was born on Thursday, about 
3 o'clock p. m., on tlie 2d May, 1780, at Fishkill, N. Y., and was 
baptised by the Rev. Mr. Evans, chaplain of General Perre's (?) 
brigade on the 20th of June following, at the house of Colonel 
Dirick Brunkerhuff. 

xi. William Hay, their "th son, was born on Monday, between 2 and 
3 o'clock p. m., on the 26th of August, 1782, at Haverstraw, 
N. Y., and was baptised by the Rev. Mr. Evans, chaplain of 
the New Hampshire Line, on Saturday, the i6th Nov., following. 

xii. Frederick Jay Hay, their 8th son, was born on Saturday, the 5th 
of March, 1785, at Haverstraw, and was baptised by the Rev. 
Mr. Kew or Kerr) of New York. 

(His amplified history follows in Section XXV.) 





StDentj»"tf)irb (feneration 



AMUEL HAY, OF BEAUFORT DISTRICT, 

SP SOUTH CAROLINA, was the sixth child of 
W Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay by his wife Martha 
^^ Smith. He was born on the 8th of September, 
1771, possibly in Kingston, Jamaica (as we find 
his parents deeding 108 acres of land in the Island 
on the 1 2th November, 1771), and baptised by the Rev. John 
Rodger, D. D,, Assistant to Mr. Treat, Minister of the Presby- 
terian Church of New York City. He died on the 5th of May, 
1804, at his home, Grimball Hill, near Coosawhatchie, Beaufort 
District, S. C; and was buried there by the side of his youthful 
wife, whom, it is said, he so tenderly loved that grief for her 
death caused his own not long after. 

It has been already related that Samuel's life was once saved 
by Aaron Burr, who (then studying law at the office of his uncle, 
Joshua Hett Smith) clambered down and brought him safely out 
from a well into which he had fallen. On another occasion Gen- 
eral Washington was a guest of Colonel Hay at Haver straw; and 
riding a fiery steed on the lawn was almost thrown from his horse 
startled by a salute to the General fired from a toy cannon by 
young Samuel Hay. General Washington thanked the youthful 
patriot for the compliment, then wrote him an order on the ord- 
nance department for one pound of powder. 

But fourteen years old when his father died, two years after 
the close of the Revolutionary War, Samuel received a good edu- 
cation, studied law, and removed from New York to Beaufort, 
S. C, and practiced law at the Beaufort bar, where the records 
show he was Ordinary (Probate Judge) for Beaufort District. 

Having met success in Beaufort, he sent back to the North 
for his widowed mother and her youngest son, Frederick. She 
lived for many years and died on the 30th of March, 182 1, and 

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THE FAMILY OF HAY 145 

-was buried at Stoney Creek, near McPhersonvillc, S. C. — the Iiis- 
■tory of Frederick is given later. Samuel Hay married at her home, 
•Grimball Hill, on the 22d of June, 1797, Elizabeth Mary, b. 26th 
Aug., 1776. the eldest daughter of ^Ir. John Kenney by his wife 
"Miss Mulholland, to whom lie was married on the 15th of Feb- 
ruary. 1773. Elizabeth Mary Hay died on the 29th of August, 
1803. Three daughters were born to Mr. Kenney and his wife. 
Miss Mulholland : — 

i. Elizabeth Mary, b. 26 Aug. 1776, and m. 22d June 1797, Samuel 

Hay. 

ii. Eleanor, b. 31 Aug. 1779, and m. 20th Feb. 1800, Dr. John Bellin- 
ger, grandson to the Landgrave Edmund Bellinger of South 
Carolina. 

iii. Susan Emily, b. 20th Nov. 1781, and m. 23d Apl. 1804, Charles J. 
Jenkins, by whom a son: — Charles J. Jenkins, the noble War 
Governor of the State of Georgia, whose memory is revered by 
all who knew him. 

After the death of his ist wife, Mr. Kenney married on the 12th Dec. 
1798, Rachel (nee Porcher) relict- of William Ross; she married after the 
death of Mr. Kenney, on the 23d of July 181 1, Colonel James Postell, and 
reared her step-grandchildren, William and Mary Hay. 

Samuel Hay, by his wife Elizabeth Mary, left two infant children: — 

i. William Henry Hay, b. loth Sept. 1801. History follows in Sec- 
tion XXIV. 

ii. Eliza Mary Hay, b. 9th Aug. 1803. Her history is given in Section 
XXIV, under that of her brother. 

THOMAS HAY, seventh child of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay 
by his wife Martha Smith, was born 25th October, 1773, at Haver- 
straw, N. Y., and baptised by the Rev. Joseph Treat of New York. 

He married his ist cousin, Sarah, only child of Joshua Flett 
Smith, and died in New York, she d. at "The Boiling Springs," 
S. C, 8 Dec. 1849, 3.gQd 75 years and 4 months, and they left the 
following children : — 

i. William Hay, who died unmarried at Haverstraw, N. Y. 

ii. Matilda Hay, who owned a home at the "Boiling Spr-ngs," Barn- 
well District, S. C, and died unmarried, and is buried there. 

iii. Charlotte Hay, b. in New York, A. D. 1807, d. at the "Boiling 
Springs," S. C, 11 Aug. 1856. She was unmarried. 

iv. Frederick Hay, died unmarried in Alabama. 

v. Augustus Hay, died unmarried at the "Boiling Springs," S. C. 

vi. Martha Hay, married Dr. Thomas Hutson, Sr., of South Caro- 



146 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

lina, and has many descendants now living — some in McPher- 
sonville, some in Charleston, and others elsewhere in South 
Carolina. 

Dr. Thomas Hutson, Sr., was the ist cousin of his wife Mar- 
tha ; he was the son of Martha, a daughter of Colonel Ann 
Hawkes Hay. 

JANET SCOTT HAY, eighth child of Ann Hawkes Hay by 
his wife Martha Smith, married a Mr. Campbell, and removed to 
Louisiana. 

MARTHA HAY, ninth child of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay by 
his wife Martha Smith, was born 226. Nov., 1777, at Ringwood 
Iron Works in the State of New Jersey, and baptised by the Rev. 
Mr. Hoyet. 

She married William Main Hutson of South Carolina, de- 
scended from the Rev. William Hutson and his wife Mary Wood- 
ward-Chardon, by whom she had children : — 

i. Dr. Thomas Hutson, Sr., who married ist his cousin Martha^ 

daughter of Thomas Hay and wife Sarah Smith (dau. of Joshua 
Hett Smith), and by her left children, among whom may be 
mentioned Dr. Thomas Hutson, Jr., of McPhersonville, S. C. 
(who had daughters : — Augusta ; Charlotte Matilda, m. Ben 
Martin ; Emeline Colcock, m. her causin Mac Hutson ; Florie, m. 
Robert Heyward; and a son Ogier, m. Miss Owens, and is a 
surgeon in the U. S. Army), and Matilda. By a second mar- 
riage. Dr. Hutson, Sr., had children : — Willie, John, Jane De- 
Saussure, Mellicent, Sally, and Annie. 

ii. Isaac Hutson, a distinguished lawyer of Barnwell, S. C, b. 3 Sept. 
1819, d. 1887, who married Sarah, the sister of the celebrated 
Presbyterian divine. Dr. Ben Palmer of South Carolina and 
New Orleans, by whom are surviving children : — Sophie, and 
the Rev. Edward Palmer Hutson. 

iii. Jane Hutson, m. Dr. Louis DeSaussure and left children : — 
Charles DeSaussure of Memphis, Tenn. ; and Thomas DeSaus- 
sure of Millegeville, Georgia. 

iv. William Maine Hutson, a prominent lawyer of Orangeburgh, S. C, 
who married Mary Mackay, and left children. 

V. Maria Hutson, m. Dr. William Townsend, Sr., and had a son : — 
William Townsend, of whose descendants later. 

vi. Esther Main Hutson, died unmarried. 

vii. Mary Hutson, died unmarried. 

viii. Ann Barnwell Hutson, died unmarried. 



THE F.\M1I.\' ( )l' II.W 147 

LEWIS SCOTT HAY. tenth child of Colonel Ann Hawkcs 
Hay by his wife Martha Sniitii. was born at Inshkill, on the Hud- 
son River, New York. He followed his brother Samuel to the 
State of South Carolina, and married, A. D. 1807, Harriet Young 
Johnson, who died 1865. 

He died in Barnwell District, S. C, A. D. 1843, «i"'-^ ^y ^^is 
wife left the following children: — 

i. Martha Hawkes Hay, married and left descendants. 

ii. Harriet Young Hay, married and left descendants. 

iii. Clementine C. Hay, married and left descendants. 

iv. Doctor Lewis Scott Hay, married and left descendants. 

V. Susan E. Hay, married and left descendants. 

vi. Frederick J. Hay, married and left descendants. 

vii. Rosa Isabel Hay, married and left descendants. 

viii. Louisa Hay, died unmarried. 

ix. Adeline D. Hay, married and left descendants. 

X. Eugene Gordon Hay, married and left descendants. 

Many descendants of these, too numerous to mention, are suc- 
cessful planters, prominent lawyers, and eminent physicians ; and 
one has been recently elevated to the bench in Georgia, having 
previously won distinction at the Atlanta bar. 



®trientp=tf)irti (generation 

Cotntinued. 





PLONEL FREDERICK JAY HAY, OF THE 

C^ BOILING SPRINGS, BARNWELL DISTRICT, 
^ SOUTH CAROLINA, was the twelfth and young- 
ma est child of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay by his wife 
Martha Smith, and was born at Haverstraw, on 
the Hudson River, New York, 5 March, 1785, one 
month before his father's death, and died at "The Boiling Springs,'' 
S. C, 10 Aug., 1849. 

While yet a lad, his mother, Martha Smith Hay, and himself 
were sent for by their brother Samuel to rejoin him at Beaufort, 
S. C, where he had established a law practice at the Beaufort bar. 

Frederick m. on the 15th Feb., 1810, Susan Cynthia, only 
daughter of Mr. Brown by his wife Miss Murdoch, of Virginia par- 
entage. She was the only child of two only children, and a wealthy 
heiress, gentle, fair, and beautiful in character. She was b. 8th of 
August, 1792, and d. in Barnwell, 27th Nov., 1868, and bu. at the 
"Boiling Springs" (ten miles south of Barnwell), where her hus- 
band had built a beautiful home at this most healthful spot in the 
State, surrounded by scenery of a natural beauty rarely equaled. 
The house was burned in 1864 by Sherman's soldiers. Some of 
their posterity now live at "The Boiling Springs," forming a hamlet 
of related families, cherishing the old Scotch traditions and at peace 
with all the world. 

Frederick was a colonel in the War of 1812. With his large 
means, he assisted liberally many of his young relatives, having 
the sympathy and co-operation of his wife, who was greatly be- 
loved for her many virtues and admired for her graces. 

Their lives were founded upon the principle, "It is more 
blessed to give than to receive." 

Frederick J. Hay, by his wife Susan, had the following chil- 
dren : — 



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THE FAMILY OF HAY 149 

i. Mary Louisa Hay, b. 8 Aug., 1812, d. 24 March, 1894. 

ii. Cliarlcs Colcock Hay, b. 12 April, 1814. 

iii. Dr. I-"redcrick Jay Hay, b. 21 Jan., 1816, d. 1891. 

iv. The Rev. Samuel Hutson Hay, b. 14 March, 1818, d. 24 Feb., 1886. 

V. William Augustus Hay, b. Dec, 1819, d. 28 July, 1846. 

vi. Lewis Scott Hay, b. 30 Jan., 1822, died unmarried. 

vii. Dr. Thomas Theodore Hay, b. 11 March, 1824, is still living. 

viii. Oscar Payne Hay, b. 17 Jan., 1828, d. Sept., 1905. 

ix. Alfred Octavius Hay, b. 13 Feb., 1830, died in infancy. 

X. Susan Cynthia Hay, b. 27 June, 1831, d. 12th July, 1907. 

xi. Martha Hutson Hay, b. 2(i Aug., 1834, is still living. 

We now £^ive a brief sketch of each of these, excepting the 
6th and 9th children, who died unmarried; and the lotli and nth, 
who married their first cousins, Sainuel and Richard Hay, whose 
histories are presented in Section XXIV. 

MARY LOUISA HAY, the ist child of Colonel Frederick 
Hay by his wife Susan, was born at McPhersonville, Beaufort Dis- 
trict, S. C, 8 Aug., 1812, and baptised by the Rev. Mr. Brown. 

She married at "The Boiling Springs," Barnwell District, A. 
D. 1831, Richard A. Gantt, b. 1796, d. 1874, and bu. at "The Boil- 
ing Springs," where he made his home, son of Judge Richard 
Gantt, eminent jurist of South Carolina, one of three associate 
justices of the Court of Appeals, by his wife Sarah, dau. of Sher- 
wood Allen, of the State of \'irginia. (Judge Richard Gantt was 
the son of Dr. Thomas Gantt of Maryland by his wife Susannah 
Mackall, also of ]\Iaryland.) 

Mrs. Gantt died at "The Boiling Springs." S. C, 24 March, 
1894, and is bu. there, having by her husband the following chil- 
dren : — 

i. Colonel Frederick Hay Gantt, b. 10 Oct., 1833, died unmarried 

10 Nov., 1885. 

During the Civil War of 1861-65, he was a Colonel in the 
C. S. A., commanding the nth regiment of S. C. Infantry, in 
General Hagood's Brigade. After the war ended, he studied 
law and for ten years before his death was the Solicitor of the 
2d Circuit of his native state. 

ii. Captain Richard Plantagenet Gantt, b. at "The Springs" on the 
loth Dec, 1834, and is still living at his home there. He was 
an officer of the iith Infantry, commanded by his brother, and 
was with him in many battles in Virginia. He is now a planter 
of Barnwell County, living at "The Boiling Springs." 



150 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

He m. I Aug., 1866, Ella Elliott, daughter of George C 
Mackay by his wife Abbie Jenkins, both of Beaufort District. 
She was b. 16 Sept., 1845, and d. 14 Dec, 1904, and was bu. at 
"The Springs," having had by her husband the following sur- 
viving children: — i. Anna Maud; ii. Frederick Hay; iii. Eliza- 
beth Mackay ; iv. Edith Plantagenet ; v. Mary Louisa ; vi. Rich- 
ard; vii. Alma Devereux ; viii. Waldo Douglas; ix. Charles 
Drayton, 
iii. Santa Anna Gantt, b. 4 May, 1837, died unmarried 24 March, 1898. 
iv. Eldred Lucas Gantt, b. 23 Feb., 1839, was killed at Petersburg, 
Va., while actmg Adjutant of the nth S. C. Infantry, having 
been mortally wounded 24 June, 1864, dying two days later. 

The Rev. Hugh Perroneau Dawes Hay, in his beautiful poem, 
"The Phantom Host" (which by many is incorrectly attributed 
to "Father Ryan"), refers to his cousin in the lines: — 
"Then strode the brave Malony, 
Kind, genial Adjutant, 
And next him walked the truthful 
The Lion-hearted Gantt." 

V. A baby, died unnamed. 

vi. Gussie Gantt, died an infant. 

vii. Lewis Gantt, died an infant. 

viii. Mary Louisa Gantt, married her cousin, the Rev. Samuel Hay, of 
whom later. 

ix. Susan Cynthia Gantt, died at the age of four years. 

X. John Mackall Gantt, living at "The Boiling Springs," S. C, mar- 
ried his cousin, Ellen Reynolds, dau. of the Rev. Samuel Hay, 
Sr., by whom 2 children : — Sam and Fred. 

xi. Sarah Eliza Gantt, living at "The Boiling Springs," S. C. 

xii. Longstreet Gantt, married Lavinia Skinner, is now living at 
Winnsboro, S. C, and has children : — Evelyn, Louise, Joseph, 
Annie, and Julia. 

CHARLES COLCOCK HAY, 2d child of Colonel Frederick 
Hay by his wife Susan, was born at his father's plantation home, 
"Green Oak Forest," Barnwell District, six miles south of Barn- 
well Court House, on the 12th of April, 1814, and died many 
years ago. 

He entered the South Carolina University, which he attended 
for several years, displaying great brilliancy of scholarship, and 
standing first in his class. On account of delicate health, he left 
college before graduating. He married Sarah Peyton, a descend- 
ant of the family of Peytons of Virginia, by whom he had the fol- 
lowing surviving children : — 



THE FAMILY OF ilAV 151 

i. Charles Colcock Hay, died young. 

ii. William Hay, 111. Sallie Oduin and has children: — Ross and 

William. 
iii. Helen Hay, m. her cousin Lewis, son of Dr. Thomas Hay, and 

have children: — Arthur, m. Miss Gardner; and ErroU, who 

married Dr. Lowrie. 
iv. Peyton Hay, m. Minnie Stroman, and has children: — Clarence, 

Sarah, and Emma. 
V. Arthur Erroll Hay, died young. 

Charles C. Hay and his daughter Helen are among those mem- 
bers of the family who have written poetry greatly admired and 
which at some future day we hope to see published in a volume. 
We give one poem of the father and one of the daughter: 

"Most beauteous flower, the loveliest 

Of all the glittering train, 

That Flora leads at vernal morn 

Upon the dewy plain ; 

The modest violet hides its head, 

The lily's cheek grows pale. 

When on the heath thy charms appear, 

Thy breath upon the gale ! 

I 

I 

"Bright harbinger of sunny days, 

Emblem of youth and love. 

Nature hails thee as Xoah did 

The olive and the dove; 

At thy approach, fond zephyr comes 

In all a wooer's pride, 

On gladsome wing to whisper love, 

And claim his beauteous bride. 

"Fair and bright, thy nuptial bower 

'Neath skies of azure hue; 

Joyous the hymneal song 

That nature swells for you ; 

From sunny hill and verdant plain 

Congratulations rise, 

Birds blithely sing, and laughing brooks 

Send back their glad replies. 

"But ah, how fleeting are thy charms ! 

How brief thy vernal day! 

Like youth and love, alas, too soon 



152 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Thou art doom'd to fade away; 

The breeze that warmly kiss'd thy cheek 

Now coldly passes by, 

And leaves thy tender form to droop, 

To wither and to die. 

"So thus too oft confiding hearts 

In purest love imbued, 

Feel first the chilling slight from those 

Who flatter'd and who sued, 

And, like the blighted rose that was 

So fair but yesterday, 

Sink with their beauties to the tomb, 

Unmourned to pass away. 

— Charles Colcock Hay. 

A daughter of the above thus daintily describes the dawning 
of the day: 

Aurora 

"Sweet Morn, decked in her gleams of light, 

Steals o'er the eastern sea. 

Waking the slumbering earth from dreams, 

And bidding its darkness flee. 

Her gentle touch uplifts the wings 

Of sable-plumaged night, 

As down the slope of western hills 

He slowly takes his flight; 

Soft zephyr breathes a sad farewell. 

Mid showers of pearly tears — 

Sparkling dew-drops — gifts more rare 

Than all the gems she wears. 

Her veil of floating mist removed, 

She lingers there the while. 

And blushing views within the deep 

Her mirrored, dawning smile — 

Then gathering up her fleecy robes, 

Clouds of silver sheen. 

She folds them round her mystic form. 

And hastens o'er the scene. 

Her gilded sandal's radiant track 

Tips each purple wave. 

That onward dancing, glittering goes 

To some far, coral cave ; 

And then she steps from ocean's tide 

Upon the verdant lea. 



'Jill': lA.MILV Ul' IIAV 153 

To touch with roseate finger tips 

Each slirul) and llnucr aiul tree. 

She stoops to kiss tlie lily's cheek, 

To sip the dew distilled, 

From the perfumed, snowy cups 

Sweet fairy hands had filled. 

Next thro' tlie deep green forest glade 

Her silver arrows lly. 

To bear upon their diainond points, 

The light caught from her eye ; 

While flasliing there in every hue 

The spangled hammocks swung, 

Among the trees, by silken threads 

The busy spiders hung. — 

Then o'er the mountain cliffs she climbs, 

To tinge, with pink and gold. 

The mantling mist-clouds resting there, 

Their towering peaks enfold. 

Far, o'er the crags and rippling rills, 

She lightly speeds away. 

To meet her king with glory crowned. 

And herald there the day. 

From out a flood of crimson light. 

He comes to claim his bride. 

To seat her on his gorgeous throne, 

In all her regal pride, — 

'Tis thus Aurora, pure and bright, 

In splendor weds the day. 

Then lays aside her diadem 

To sink beneath his sway. 

— Helen Hay. 

DR. FREDERICK JAY H.\Y, 3d child of Colonel Frederick 
Hay by his wife Susan, was born at "Green Oak Forest," Barn- 
well District, S. C, 2 1 St January. 1816, and baptised by the Rev. 
IMr. Brown. He died at "The Boiling Springs," A. D. 1891, and 
was buried there. 

He was graduated in medicine at the Charleston Medical Col- 
lege, about 1838, and married on the 7th of March, 1839. in 
Charleston, S. C, Caroline Hasell, daughter of Matilda Perry by 
her husband Christopher Gadsden, son of Thomas Hasell by his 
wife Mary Somcrs of Georgetown, S. C. 

For many years after his marriage Dr. Frederick Hay prac- 
ticed medicine in Charleston, spending the summers in turn at 



154 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Barnwell, at "The Boiling Springs," and his beautiful plantation 
home, "Errolton." In the year 1859 he removed to a plantation 
known as "Tranquil Hill," near Summerville, S. C, and practiced 
medicine until the year 1871, in Summerville and the vicinity, and 
then returned to his home at "The Boiling Springs," where he 
followed his profession until his death in the year 1891. 

Dr. Hay was known as a physician of skill and ability; he 
was especially fortunate in his treatment of typhoid fever, having 
never lost a case in his entire practice. He was, moreover, of a 
scientific turn of mind, well versed in the knowledge of the fauna 
and flora of his native State and country. Some of his contribu- 
tions to science and discoveries in natural history were preserved 
in a work undertaken by Dr. Holbrook, the well-known Professor 
of Anatomy, at the Medical College of Charleston, who was Dr. 
Hay's intimate friend. 

The friend to all who knew him, and venerated by them in 
return, he died at "The Boiling Springs" in his seventy-sixth year, 
and by his wife, Caroline Hasell, who d. , left children:— 

i. The Rev. Hugh Peronneau Dawes Hay, b. 17 January, 1840, an 

Episcopal clergyman, now in charge of churches at Bluffton, 
Hardeeville, and Shirley, S. C. 

A soldier in the war of 1861-65, he rendered his country 
faithful service, and is admired as a writer of prose and poetry. 
One of his poems— "The Phantom Host"— has been recited at 
several Confederate reunions, and been published in Dr. Whar- 
ton's collection of Southern Poetry, who accredits it incor- 
rectly to "Father Ryan." 

He married Mary Pinckney, of Charleston, S. C, daughter 
of Robert Pinckney by his wife Martha Salina Gaillard, and 
by her, now deceased, has sons : — i. Percy Douglas Hay, m. 
May Mitchell and has children : May, Percy, and Gladys ; ii. 
Alfred Pinckney Hay, m. his cousin, Mary Louisa, daughter of 
Captain Richard P. Gaunt, and has children: Edith and Henry; 
iii. Harry Hasell Hay; iv. Eldred Gaunt Hay. 

The Rev. Mr. Hay has daughters : — i. Mary Pinckney Hay ; 
ii. Ruth Hay, m. James, son of Mr. Haskell Rhett of Beaufort 
by his wife Rosa Means, and has children : — Ruth, James, Has- 
kell, Mary; iii. Lena Pinckney Hay, m. her cousin, Henry 
Gumming, son of Judge Samuel and Susan Hay, and has a 
little daughter : — Lena St. Clair Hay. 
ii. Hasell Hay, living at her home at "The Boiling Springs." 



THE lA.MILV OF HAY 155 

iii. Dr. Christopher Gadscn Hay, b. A. D. 1847, and now rcsidin}^ 
at Beaufort, S. C, where he is U. S. Health OfTiccr for one of 
the harbors leading into Beaufort. 

He was a gallant young Confederate soldier for the last two 
years of the Civil War, and married his cousin, Mary, daughter 
of Mr. Oscar Payne Hay, by wliom children : — Alvan, Jean, and 
Hugh, 
iv. Morritt Hay, died in infancy. 

Wc give the following poem by the Rev. Hugh Peronncau 
Dawes Hay, hoping that its publication here may serve to prevent 
its being publishctl elsewhere as one of "Father Ryan's" pieces. 
The Alfred Pinckney of these verses was a brother-in-law of Mr. 
Hay, and Gantt was his young cousin who fell at Petersburgli, 
Va., while Pat Maloney was a young hero from Barnwell, none 
of whom would have come under the observation of Father Ryan 
— and yet it is very reluctantly that admirers of the Alabama poet 
will cede the claim of the South Carolina author. He has written 
others of greater beauty : 

My form was wrapped in slumber. 
That steals from the heart its cares, 
For my very life was weary 
With its barren waste of years ; 
But my soul with rapid pinions 
Fled swift to the light that beams 
From a phantom sun and planets, 
For the dreamer and his dreams. 

I stood in a wondrous woodland, 
Where the' sunlight nestled sweet, 
In cups of snowy lilies. 
Which grew about my feet ; 
And while the forest arches 
Stirred gently with the air, 
The lilies underneath them 
Swung their censors pale in prayer. 

I stood amazed and wondering. 
And a grand, Memnonian strain 
Came sweeping thro' the forest, 
And died, then rose again ; 
It swelled in solemn measure, 



156 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Till my soul with comfort blest, 
Sank down among the lilies, 
With folded wings to rest. 

Then to that mystic music, 

Thro' the forest's twilight aisle, 

Passed a host with muffled footstep, 

In martial rank and file ; 

And I knew those grey-clad figures, 

So slowly passing by, 

Were the souls of Southern soldiers 

Who for freedom dared to die. 

In front rode Sidney Johnston, 
His brow no longer wrung. 
By the vile and senseless slander 
Of a prurient, rabble tongue ; 
And near him, mighty Jackson 
With placid front, as one 
Whose warfare was accomplished, 
And crown of glory won. 

There Hill, too, pure and noble, 
Passed in that spirit train. 
He had joined the martyred army 
From the South's last battle plain; 
Then next in order followed 
The warrior priest, great Polk, 
With joy to meet the Master, 
For he'd nobly borne his yoke. 

Then Stuart, the bold, the daring, 
With matchless Pelham rode. 
With earnest, chastened faces. 
They were looking up to God; 
And Jenkins, glorious Jenkins, 
With his patient, fearless eyes. 
And the brave, devoted Garnett, 
Journeyed on to paradise. 

Before a shadowy squadron, 

Rode Morgan, keen and strong. 

And I knew by his tranquil forehead. 

He'd forgotten every wrong; 

There peerless Pegram marching, 

With a dauntless, martial tread, 



TIM'. ["AMILV OI- HAY 157 

And I hrcatlu-d a sigh for tlie hero, 
The young, the early dead. 

'Mid spectral, black horse troopers, 
Passed Ashby's stalwart form, 
With that proud, defiant bearing 
Which spurned the battle's storm ; 
But his glance was mild and tender. 
For in that phantom host. 
It dwelt witli lingering fondness 
On' the brother he had lost. 

Then strode the brave Malony, 
Kind, genial adjutant, 
And next him walked the truthful, 
The lion-hearted Gantt. 

There to that solemn music, 
Passed a triad of the brave, 
Hayne, Taylor, Alfred Pinckney, 
All had found a soldier's grave ; 
They were young and gentle spirits, 
But they quaffed the bitter cup, 
For their country's flag was falling, 
And they fell to lift it up. 

Aye, there passed in countless thousands, 
In that mighty phantom host, 
True hearts and noble patriots. 
Whose names on earth are lost ; 
There "the missing" found their places, 
Those who vanished from our gaze. 
Like brilliant meteors flashing, 
Then lost in glory's blaze. 

Yes, they passed — that noble army — 
They passed to meet their Lord, 
And a voice within me whispered, 
"They but march to their reward." 

— Hugh Peronneau Dawes Hay. 

Written in compliance with his wife Mary Pinckney 's re- 
quest that he write a poem in memory of her brother Alfred Pinck- 
ney, who was killed in \'irginia in the war of 1861-65. 



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THE REV. SAMUEL HUTSON HAY, 4th child of Colonel- 
Frederick Hay by his wife Susan, was b. 14th of March, 1818, at 
"Green Oak Forest," and was baptised by the Rev. Mr. Brown. 
He died 24th Feb., 1886. 

He was exceptionally studious as a child, displaying marked 
intellectual ability of a high order, reading Virgil at the age of ten 
years in the regular course of his education. like his brothers, 
Charles Colcock and Oscar Payne Hay, who stood among the very 
first in large classes, he entered the South Carolina University and 
won by his scholarship distinguished honor. Under the influence 
of its President, Bishop Elliott, he felt he was divinely called to 
the sacred ministry, and took a course of Theology at the Presby- 
terian Seminary in Columbia, S. C. 

While at college he met the lady who became his wife. Miss 
Mary Peck, a granddaughter of Professor Park. He was first 
called to the church at Beech Island; in 1843, he took charge of 
the church at Winnsboro, and after two years returned to live 
with his father at "The Boiling Springs," whose failing health 
required his son's assistance in managing his plantation. Called 
to the Camden Church in 1853, he remained there until 1880, and 
then removed to McCLellanville, S. C. 

With a longing for the scenes of his youth, he removed in 
1883 to Allendale as the Evangelist of the Charleston Presbytery, 
and in 1885 returned to his early home, "The Boiling Springs," 
where he died and was buried, 1886. 

With intense patriotism, on the eve of the Civil War, he 
preached a celebrated sermon from the text, "In the name of our 
God, we shall set up our banners," and during the progress of 
subsequent hostilities was often forced to face ruthless raiding 
parties of Sherman's army at his own door. 

A finished scholar and devoted parent, he educated all his 
children himself; a devout Christian, it was said of him, "He de- 
serves no credit for being good, he cannot be otherwise," and his 
life illustrated the two commandments — Love for God and Love 
for Man. 

He died finally, widely revered and without one enemy in the 
world, and yet was a man of strongly marked character. He left 
at his death a widow whom he loved most tenderly in life, and 



THE FAMILY Ol' HAY 159 

many children, whose proudest heritage might well be that they 
arc sons and daughter of the just. 

By his wife Mary lie had the following children: — 

i. Frances Snowden, m. Colonel Del Kemper of the C. S. A., at one 

time a profc«sor at tlie citadel, Charleston, S. C, and later 
U. S. Consul to China. 
They left children : — May ; Zaida ; Erroll ; and Del Kemper. 

ii. James Thornwell Hay, who was admitted to tlic har, and prac- 
ticed law in Camden, S. C. ; he was a distinguished State Sen- 
ator from Kershaw County, and has recently died, leaving a 
widow and several children — one of whom, named for his 
father, is a promising young physician. 

iii. Frederick Jay Hay, who is now in charge of the Mechanical and 
Industrial department at "Farm School," near Asheville, X. C. 
By his wife Miss Richards, he has children: — Sophie; Sam; 
Louise ; NJohn ; I'rcd ; Mary; Lide; and Nellie Hay. 

iv. The Rev. Samuel Hutson Hay, Jr., a Presbyterian minister, now 
of Camden, S. C. 

He married his first cousin, Mary Louisa Gantt, daughter of 
Richard Gantt by his wife Louisa Hay, and by her has chil- 
dren: — i. Harold Hawkes; ii. Samuel Hay. 

V. The Rev. Thomas Park Hay, a Presbyterian minister, now living 
at Gainesville, Fla. 

He married ist Susan Venning, by whom a daughter Olive; 
he married 2d Miss Jennie Mikell, and has a son : — Thomas. 

vi. Mary Susan Hay, married her first cousin, Dr. Walter Scott Hay, 
Jr., son of Dr. Walter Scott Hay, Sr., by his wife Ann Fraser 
of Charleston, S. C, and by her husband, who is deceased and 
b. at "The Boiling Springs," has children : — Erroldine, Malcolm, 
Lewis Scott, Nelline, and William Smith Hay. 

vii. Burwcll Boykin Hay, on the publishing staff of a newspaper in 
Atlanta, Ga., married Annie Winne, and by his wife has a 
daughter: — Minnie Lee Hay. 

viii. Ellen Reynolds Hay, youngest dau., married her first cousin, 
John Mackall Gantt, son of Mr. Richard Gantt by his wife 
Louisa Hay, and lives at "The Boiling Springs," S. C. 
By her husband she has two sons : — Sam and Fred. 

ix. Dr. William Smith Hay, graduated at medicine, and is a practic- 
ing physician at Allendale, S. C. He married Burney Clarke 
and by her has one son: — Samuel Burney Hay. 

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HAY. the 5th child of Colonel 
Frederick Hay and his wife Susan, was born at "Green Oak 
Forest," Barnwell District, S. C., on the 25th of Deceinber, 1819, 



i6o THE FAMILY OF HAY 

and died near Barnwell, 28 July, 1846; he was buried at "The- 
Boiling Springs." 

He was graduated at the South Carolina University, and hav- 
ing been admitted to the bar, entered upon the practice of law at 
Barnwell C. H., establishing the reputation of being a young lawyer 
of unusual ability and brilliancy. Like his cousin, William Henry- 
Hay, he died suddenly in the very flower of life. 

He married at her home in Barnwell, S. C, Susan O'Bannon, 
the sister of Dr. James O'Bannon, who having survived her hus- 
band by many years, died in Barnwell, A. D. 1901, and is buried 
at "The Boiling Springs." They had children: — 

i. Frances Jane Hay, died in infancy. 

ii. Harriet Ford Hay, married William Hutson Townsend, son of 
Dr. William Townsend, Sr., by his wife Maria, the Sth child 
of Martha (daughter of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay) by her 
husband William Maine Hutson (vide Section XXHI — A). 

Her husband dying many years ago, Mrs. Townsend is now 
living with her two children in Columbia, S. C. 

By her husband, she has children : — i. William Hay Townsend,. 
studied law in the office of Colonel William Elliott of Beaufort, 
S. C, and having practiced law for several years in Barnwell, 
as a partner in the firm of Bellinger and Townsend, removed to 
Columbia, where at one time he was the Assistant Attorney-Gen- 
eral of South Carolina. 

Resigning from this office, he has set up an office for him- 
self in Columbia, where he is a successful practitioner at the 
bar, skilled especially in the civil law. 

ii. Edith Townsend, living in Columbia with her mother and 
brother. 

DOCTOR THOMAS THEODORE HAY, 7th child of Colo- 
nel Frederick Hay by his wife Susan, was born at "The Boiling 
Springs," S. C, on the nth of March, 1824, and was baptised 
by the Rev. Mr. Brown. 

He studied medicine and was graduated at the Medical Col- 
lege of Charleston. He was especially gifted in the power of 
diagnosis, and excelled in the treatment of children's diseases. It 
is said he never lost a case of diphtheria in all his practice, savings 
by his skill many patients suffering from this disease so fatal in 
days preceding the discovery of anti-toxine. 

Having retired from active life, and one of two living grand- 
cliildren of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay of the American Revolution,. 



THE FAMILY Ol- HAY i6i 

this venerable and beloved representative of the family of Hay of 
Erroll and Lochloy is now livin<:^ at Ralcig-h, X. C, where he settled 
to be with his children, his life full of years and honor. 

He married on the loth April, 1845, Rhoda Furse, who died 
at Kings Mountain, N. C, leaving children: — 

i. Lewis Gordon Hay, married his first cousin, Helen, daughter of 
Charles Colcock Hay. He is now deceased and left children, 
Erroll, who m. Dr. Lowric of York County, S. C, living in 
Luxora, Ark.; and Arthur, who married Miss Gardner and 
lives in Indian Territory. 

ii. Mary Ella Hay, lives with her father in Raleigh, N. C. 

iii. Rosalie Hay, lives with her fatlicr in Raleigh, N. C. 

iv. Thomas Theodore Hay, went from "The Boiling Springs," S. C, 
to Raleigh, N. C, to begin a business career as clerk in an 
Insurance Company. He soon developed such marked ability 
that he became the manager and general agent for a leading 
life and several fire insurance companies, and by energy and 
integrity has risen to a very high point of success. He now 
resides in Raleigh, N. C, and in addition to the business of 
insurance, is president of "The Raleigh Press Brick Company." 
He married Isabel Cameron, daughter of Major Seaton Gales 
of Raleigh, by his wife Mary A. Cameron, and by her has chil- 
dren : — i. Mary Seaton Hay, m. William Branch Jones, a prom- 
inent lawyer of Raleigh, by whom a little girl, Isabella Cameron 
Jones; ii. Belle Cameron Ha}-, m. Frank Morton Stronach, a 
successful business man and manufacturer of Raleigh, Vice- 
President and Secretary of the Raleigh Press Brick Company, 
by whom a son, Thomas Hay. 

V. Walter Douglas Hay, who was junior partner of the firm of T. T. 

Hay and Bro. 
He married Nannie Burwcll of Raleigh, now deceased, by 

whom an only daughter living: — Nannie, attending school in 

Raleigh, 
vi. Leila Hay, m. Benjamin, son of Dr. Peeples, by whom one child, 
vii. Gilbert Hay, engaged in the Marine and Fire Insurance business, 

living at Waco, Texas. His name came down from Gilbert Hay, 

Lord of Erroll, grandson of Gilbert, 3d Earl of Stratheam. (See 

Section or Chapter III.) 
He m. Alice Henrietta Marshall of Texas, by whom a son : — 

Marshall Downes Hay. 
viii. Albert Hay, twin to Gilbert, died a young man full of promise, 

whose death was greatly deplored by all who knew him. 
ix. Oscar Payne Hay, unmarried, living in Raleigh, N. C, where he 

is an agent of real estate. 



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There were also the following children who died young : — Robert, Charles 
Colcock, Florence and Louise (twins). 

OSCAR PAYNE HAY, the 8th child of Colonel Frederick 
Hay by his wife Susan, was born at "The Boiling Springs," S. C, 
and baptised by the Rev. Mr. Moderwel of Augusta, Ga. He d. 
in Beaufort, S. C, and was bu. at the place of his birth, in Sep- 
tember, 1905. 

He was graduated at the South Carolina University with dis- 
tinction in a large class, and among his classmates were his life- 
long friends. Major Theodore Barker, Judge Simonton, the Rev. 
Mr. Campbell, and Dr. William E. Huger of Charleston, and Colo- 
nel McMaster of Columbia, S. C. 

Mr. Oscar Hay was widely known over the State, and was 
generally beloved and honored by his many friends, for his cour- 
age, gentleness and integrity. He married his first cousin, Sarah 
Porcher Hay, daughter of William Henry Hay by his wife Mary 
Caroline Gantt, and by his wife, who died A. D. 1904, had chil- 
dren : — 

i. Mary Hay, married her cousin Christopher Gadsden Hay, M. D., 

an account of whom has been already given. 
ii. Caroline Petigru Hay, married Richard M. Bostick, and died at 

"The Boiling Springs," S. C, 5th Oct. 1887; her death was 

followed four months later by that of her only daughter, 4 

months old, named for her mother. 



i 



Etocntp-fourtf) (generation 



jILLIAM HENRY HAY OF "THE OAKS," 

W BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, was the 
only son of Samuel Hay (6th child of Colonel Ann 
tiawkes Hay) by his wife Elizabeth Mary Kenney. 
^^ He was born at Grimball Hill, near Coosawhat- 

chie, Beaufort District, S. C, and but two years 
old when his father died, with his baby sister Eliza Mary, — their 
mother having died one year before their father — were carefully 
and affectionately reared by their step-grandmother, Mrs. Rachel 
Postell, nee Rachel Porcher, at "Grimball Hill." 

He was b. on tlie loth of September, 1801, and died at the 
early age of twenty-nine years, of peritonitis, in the village of Barn- 
well, on the 27th of Novemb^, 1830, while attending court. 

He was a strikingly handsome man, and, as in the case of his 
father, his career as a brilliant lawyer was cut short at a period 
when life opened full of promise. 

He m. on the 27th of November, 182 1, Mary Anna Caroline 
(born at her father's home, "Mount Vintage," Edgefield District^ 
S. C), daughter of Judge Richard Gantt of Maryland, by his wife 
Sarah Allen of \'irginia. The lineage of Mary Ann Caroline will 
be found in the following sketch of : — 

iri|p family of (Saunt 
I. Thomas Gaunt (or Gantt), the ist, came to the Province of Mary- 
land, A. D. 1660, and received in a grant from Lord Baltimore, 
the lands of "Myrtle Range," at White's Landing, Calvert 
County. 

It is stated he was descended from the Rev. John Gaunt of 
Highfield House, co. Stafford, England, rector of Dudley, and 
brought with him to Maryland a young son, Edward, by his 
wife Miss Graham, who died in England. 

According to the Gaunt Family Bible, this Edward had a 
son who was Thomas the 2d. 

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Dr. Christopher Johnston, State Historian of Maryland, in 
correspondence with the writer, takes issue with this, and says 
he finds by the evidence of wills that Thomas, the 2d, was the 
son of Thomas Gaunt, ist, who d. 1692, by his wife Anne Green- 
field, who d. 1726 ,and was the daughter of Thomas Green- 
field (b. 1649 and resided in the Province of Maryland till 171S, 
when he died in Prince George's County, having been a Burgess 
for Calvert and Prince George's Counties, and Member of the 
Colonial Council, at one time Acting Governor), by his wife 
Martha, daughter of James Trueman (b. 1622, d. 1672, having 
been a Justice for Calvert County from 1669 to 1670), by his 
wife Anne Storer who d. 1714. Thomas Gaunt the ist was 
His Majesty's Justice of the Peace 1689 and Justice of Calvert 
County. 

2. Thomas Gaunt the 2d, son of Thomas the ist, d. in Prince George's 

County, Md., in 1765, having held the position of Gentleman's 
Justice of the Quorum from 1725 to 1728; Commissioned Jus- 
tice, 1732; Burgess for Prince George's County from 1722 to 
1728; Justice of Prince George's County, 1726-33; of the Quorum 
from 1728; and Presiding Justice from 1732. 

He married 1709, Priscilla Brooke, daughter of Anne and 
Colonel Thomas Brooke (b. about 1659, d. 7 Jan. 1730, was 
Justice for Calvert Co.; Commissioner for laying out Towns; 
Member of Council 1692 to 1707 and 1715-1724; Justice of 
Court 169s; Com. -Gen. of the Province; President of the Coun- 
cil and Acting Governor of Maryland), the son of Eleanor 
Hatton by her husband Major Thomas Brooke (b. at Battle, 
England, 23 June 1632; and d. in Maryland 1676; was Captain 
of Militia for Calvert 1658; was Major in 1660; Sheriff of Cal- 
vert Co. 1666-67; Presiding Justice of County Court 1667), the 
son of Mary Baker and her husband Robert Brooke (b. in Lon- 
don, England, 3 June 1602; d. at Brooke Place Manor, Md., 
1655; was Commander of Charter Company 1650; Member of 
Council 1650; Head of the Provincial Council 1652). 

3. Thomas Gaunt the 3d, M. D., son of Thomas the 2d, was b. in 

Maryland 1710; and d. 1785 in Prince George's County, Md. 

He was Justice of Prince George's Co., 1738-41; 1748-52; and 
Justice of the Quorum in 1740. 

He m. Rachel Smith, daughter of Sarah (d. 1747 and dau. of 
George Young), by her husband Colonel John Smith of Calvert 
County, b. 1676, d. 1737, and Justice of the Provincial Court of 
Md. 1729 to 1737; and of the Quorum from 1730. 

4. Thomas Gaunt the .ith, M. D., son of Dr. Thomas Gaunt the 3d, 

was b. in Prince George's County, Md., about 1736; he was 
Justice of Prince George's County 1773-75; and Member of the 
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Council; a Signer of the Declaration of Rights by the Freemen 
of America, which hangs in the State House at Annapolis; was 
Superintendent of Fortifications 1775; was a Member of the 
Committee of Correspondence in 1775; and in 1777 was a Mem- 
ber of the Council of Safety. He m. Susannah Mackall, who d. 
1757. an<^l ^vas daughter of Mary Hance by her husband James 
John Mackall (who held colonial offices), son of Susannah Par- 
rott by her husband Colonel John Mackall of Calvert Co., d. 
1739 (his son James John, was b. 1717 and d. in 1772), son of 
Mary d. 1718, by her husband James Mackall, Esq., of Calvert 
County, Md. 

Mary Hance, wife of James John Mackall, was the daughter 
of Mary Hutchins, by her husband Benjamin Hance of Calvert 
Co., b. in 1692 and d. 1773, the son of Mary Sewell by her hus- 
band John Hance of Calvert County (m. 1687), d. 1709 and 
held colonial office. 

Mary Hutchins was t!ie daughter of Elizabeth Burrage, by her 
husband Francis Hutchins, who resided in the Province of Mary- 
land to 1698, when he d. in Calvert County. He was a Burgess 
for Calvert 1682-84 and 1694-97, and Justice 1679-96. 

James John Mackall was b. in Calvert Co., Md., 29 Nov. 1717, 
and d. 3d January 1772; and was a Burgess for Calvert Co., 
1745-65- 

5. Judge Richard Gaunt, son of Dr. Thomas the 4th, was b. in Cal- 

vert County, Md. in 1767; he studied law under the Hon. Wil- 
liam Pinckney, and removed to the State of South Carolina, 
where he rose to the high office of Circuit Judge, and one of 
the three Justices of the Court of Appeals, at the same time as 
his friend Judge Charles J. Colcock. 

He m. Sarah Allen, who is said to have been selected to 
dance by LaFayette, as being the most beautiful and graceful 
lady of the ballroom, in Augusta, Ga. 

They had children : — Thomas Gaunt ; Edward Gaunt ; William 
Gaunt; Sarah Gaunt, ni. Mr. Stone of Greenville, S. C. ; 
Eliza Gaunt, m. William Thompson of Greenville, S. C. ; Richard 
Gaunt, m. Louisa, eldest child of Colonel Frederick Hay (of 
her we have given an account in Section XXHI — B) ; and finally, 
Mary Ann Caroline Gaunt. 

6. Mary Ann Caroline Gaunt, daughter of Judge Richard Gaunt, was 

born at Mount Vintage, Edgefield District, S. C, on the nth of 

June, 1803, and died . 

She married on the 27th of November, 1821, at her father's 
home, William Henry Hay, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mary 
Hay. (Vide the ist part of Section XXHI— A.) 

William Henry Hay, by liis wife Mary Caroline Gaunt, had the 



i66 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

following children : — 

i. Mary Caroline Hay, born 3d October 1822, at Columbia, S. C, 

lived with her sister Sarah, died about 1901, and was buried at 
"The Boiling Springs," S. C, where she died, unmarried. 
ii. Sarah Porcher Hay, born at Columbia, S. C, 20th April 1824, and 
died in Beaufort, S. C, 1903, and was buried at "The Boiling 
Springs," S. C. 

She married her first cousin, Oscar Payne, son of Colonel 
Frederick Hay, and for his sketch vide Section XXIH — B. 
iii. Judge Samuel Jenkins Hay was born at his father's home, "The 

Oaks," near Barnwell, S. C, history follows. 
iv. Richard Gaunt Hay was born 20th October 1827, at "The Boil- 
ing Springs," S. C. 

During the war of 1861-65 he was a gallant officer in the 
C. S. A., being a major of the nth Regiment of Infantry, Ha- 
good's Brigade. After the war ended he was elected a member 
of the Legislature, just preceding the rule by "Carpet Baggers," 
"Scalawags," and negroes. He was well known in insurance 
circles, was universally beloved and admired, and was a strik- 
ingly handsome man of courtly manners. 

He married his first cousin, Martha Hutson Hay, the youngest 
child of Colonel Frederick Hay, one of two surviving grand- 
children of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay of the American Revolu- 
tionary War. 

They had children : — i. Mary Caroline, died at the age of 
three years ; ii. Martha Hutson, died an infant ; iii. Sarah Hen- 
rietta, died in infancy; and iv. Marion Haywood Hay, m. her 
cousin Frederick Hay Gaunt, son of Captain Richard P. Gaunt, 
(an account of whom has been given in Section XXHI — B), 
and by him has children : — Richard, Marshall, Frederick, and 
Elizabeth Marion Gaunt, now living at "The Boiling Springs." 




VL\3ic\\tp-iilt\) (feneration 



JUDGE SAMUEL JENKINS HAY OF INGLE- 
SIDE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, was 
the eldest son and 3d child of WiUiam Henry and 
Mary Caroline Hay. He was b. at liis father's 
home, "The Oaks," just without the limits of Barn- 
well, on the 23d of November, 1825, and died at 
his home, "Ingleside," Barnwell, S. C, on the 14th of June, 1881, 
and buried at "The Boiling Springs," S. C. 

He was adopted at an early age by his distinguished kinsman, 
Governor Charles J. Jenkins of Georgia, and was graduated at 
Erskine College, S. C, the valedictorian of his class, having estab- 
lished a record of brilliant scholarship. He studied law in the of- 
fice of Governor Jenkins, and was junior partner in the law firm 
of Jenkins, Walton, and Hay, of Augusta, Ga. 

After his marriage he returned to his native State, and settled 
at Barnwell, where he practiced law until his death. 

He was elected District Judge by the Legislature of 1865, and 
a little later resigned the office under a radical administration. 
He refused to hold the office of Probate Judge offered him at the 
period of radical control of the government of South Carolina, but 
accepted the office later under democratic rule. 

Many stories arc related that show his chivalrous nature, and 
readiness to aid the weak imposed upon by those stronger than 
themselves. 

On one occasion he denounced the dishonesty of a desperado 
whom he was playing unfairly at cards and winning money from one 
of his friends. The man, enraged, called for pistols, that he might 
have satisfaction for his wounded honor. Only one could be found 
and young Hay proposed they cast lots for it and the first shot. 
It was won by the gambler and as Hay stood quietly before him 
with folded arms and without change of expression or tremor in 

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i68 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

voice, looked down the barrel of the weapon and bade his antagon- 
ist "Fire!" the latter, aiming for a few moments, threw down his 
weapon, exclaiming he could not kill so brave a man — the slightest 
indication of fear would have meant instantaneous death for the 
young champion of fair play, but his dauntless mien won the gen- 
erous admiration even of one accustomed to scenes of bloodshed 
and crime. 

This incident happened in early life, and later on amid all the 
stormy scenes of "Military Despotism" and "Radical Misrule," 
which characterized the lawless period of Reconstruction, Judge 
Hay fearlessly performed his duty, at times issuing warrants for 
the arrest of United States marshals, who were illegally seizing 
the citizens of Barnwell and dragging them off for trial at the 
point of their pistols. He has been known, alone, to quell the 
tumult of a "radical mob," brandishing their weapons and clamor- 
ing for the blood of Barnwell's citizens. When a boy he won the 
reputation of being "a John C. Calhoun" among his companions, 
was their referee for all disputes, which were settled as he 
decided; later in life, confidence in him was so great that he arbi- 
trated many "affaires d'honneur," which he adjusted, when possible, 
by peaceful methods. 

Once when a negro had been hung up by Federal troops for 
refusing to disclose the spot in which his master's family had se- 
creted their articles of value and was at the point of death, Samuel 
Hay rode to the scene and cut him down when no one else dared do 
so, the Federals threatening to shoot down whoever interfered 
with the execution. 

In strong contrast to his fearless temperament and on occasion 
tiger-like energy in support of justice arrayed against injustice, and 
defense of the weak oppressed by the strong, was his unobtrusive 
modesty of mien and deportment in the ordinary avocations of life, 
and his shrinking from all notoriety. 

The following extracts are taken from sketches of Judge Hay 
written just after his death, which will show the veneration in 
which he was held by the community in which he lived : — 

"Never prince bore in his breast a knightlier soul than that of Samuel 
Hay, now smiling down from its 'high place' of repose upon the scenes of 
his pilgrimage and the friends of his true heart ****** He dis- 
played at all times and in a thousand crises the courage of a lion where in- 



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nocence was to be defended or wrong set right. No man in his presence 
dared lightly take the name of woman on irreverent lips, and on one oc- 
casion, at least, like the chevalier of a vanished time, he offered his own 
brave heart as the shield of a maligned lady's honor, and at no period of his 
life would he have hesitated to repeat the challenge and maintain it with his 
life. 

"In patriotism he was no less bold and brave. During that 'Reign of 
Terror' in South Carolina, when few were willing to lift a lance for Free- 
dom, Mr. Hay's pen was the very first to advocate 'Straight-out Democracy,' 
by which policy the State was eventually redeemed. This fact is immortal- 
ized among the files of our staunch old paper, 'The Barnwell Sentinel,' whose 
columns were frequently enriched by this gifted and graceful mind, that like 
the modest violet sought ever to hide in the shade while passing zephyrs bore 
its ineffable perfume to the outer world. 

"The tenderest of all the Muses had kissed his fancy in its dreams, and 
charming verse flowed as freely as noble prose from his facile pen. Had he 
been half so ambitious as he was daring in thought and trained in scholar- 
ship, the world of letters would mourn his loss today, as much as the sphere 
within whose orbit he was content to move. ****** y\nd when 
He comes in glory to gather His own, they, who, like our friend, have gone 
about the quiet byways silently doing their life-work, will be called to the 
rewards of His inflexible justice. ******" 

From another sketch is extracted the following: — 

"His loss will be felt not alone by his family but by the community at 
large. He was a 'Chevalier Bayard sans peur et sans reproche,' a gentle- 
man of the old school (which, alas! is passing away with the present genera- 
tion), with high sentiments of honor grounded upon sound principles worthy 
the emulation of all. ****** His administration of justice was 
characterized by ability, integrity, and strict impartiality. With him duty 
was ever paramount to interest and he did not weigh one against the other 
****** It was especially in the walks of private life that the 
beauty of his character shone forth and these who knew him best loved him 
most. ******" 

Judge Samtiel J. Hay married at lier home, "The Boiling 
Springs," Barnwell District, S. C, his cousin. Susan Cynthia Hay. 

Siie was the daughter of Colonel Frederick J. Hay. by iiis wife 
Susan, and was born 27th June 183 1, at "Tlie Boiling Springs," 
and died on the 12th July 1907. in Charleston. S. C, and buried at 
"The Boiling Springs." Lovely in form and feature, her disposi- 
tion was one of great gentleness and tender affection, and her 
character pure and elevated above the things of earth. Brave and 
courageous under trials and affliction, she was a fit helpmate to her 
husband, whom she outlived by twenty-six years. 



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We think the following lines, written by Judge Hay, most 
fittingly descriptive of the resting place of his wife who has recently 
crossed the river to rejoin him, so long awaiting the reunion: — 

Tread lightly here, for Jesus keeps 
Watch where his heavy laden sleeps 
With weary eye and dim! 
He guardeth well the promised rest 
And takes the sleeper to his breast 
Who fell asleep in Him. 

Tread lightly! for the mortal clay 
That mingles with the dust today, 
In cold corruption sown — 
With immortality put on, 
Will join upon the judgment morn, 
The throng about the throne. 

Tread lightly here ! beneath thy feet 
A saint, in slumber soft and sweet, 
Awaits the trumpet's call ; 
To rise when graves give up their dead. 
With crown of glory on her head, 
And meet the Lord of all. 

Tread lightly here ! beneath the sod. 
Reposing in the peace of God, 
Let his beloved sleep! 
In mercy He hath closed those eyes. 
Too loving for this world of sighs, 
And destined here to weep. 

Safely the gentle law of love, 

By which she walked, hath led above 

To virtue's bright reward : 

Too pure in heart on earth to stay. 

Her tears have all been wiped away, 

In mansions of the Lord ! 

The children of Judge Samuel J. Hay by his wife Susan are as 
follows : 

i. Charles Jenkins Hay, living in Barnwell, S. C, where he was ad- 

mitted to the bar, having studied law in Mr. Hutson's office. 
At one time Trial Justice of Barnwell, he is now Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Town Council, and is Past Master of the 
Barnwell Masonic Lodge. 



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ii. Susan Emily Hay, living in Charleston, S. C. 

Hi. Richard Marion Hay, an insurance man and planter; he lives at 

"The Boiling Springs," S. C. 
He married Miss Sallie Glover of Charleston, S. C, daughter 

of Sanders Lcstarjctte Glover by his wife Julia Mathews, 

Charleston, and has children: — Samuel Marion Hay; Lestar- 

jette Glover Hay; Emily Kathleen Hay. 
iv. William Henry Hay, bookkeeper of the People's National Bank 

of Charleston, S. C. 
V. Patti Lee Hay, married her cousin Charles J. Colcock, son of 

Colonel Charles J. Colcock, C. S. A., by his wife Lucy Frances 

Horton, and has a surviving daughter : — Erroll Hay Colcock, 

vide Section XXIV— B. 
vi. Mary Erskine Hay, lives in Charleston, S. C. 
vii. Henry Gumming Hay, planter, insurance, and real estate agent, 

living at "The Boiling Springs," S. C. 
He married his cousin, Lena Pinckney, daughter of the Rev. 

Hugh Peronneau Dawes Hay by his wife Mary Pinckney, for 

whose sketch vide Section XXHI — B. 
They have a daughter : — Lena St. Clair Hay. 
viii. Gertrude Agnes Hay, living in Charleston, S. C. 
ix. Samuel Montgomery Hay, died young. 

We conclude this section (or chapter) with another poem by 
Judge Samuel J. Hay, and one by the Rev. Dawes Hay, reserving 
others of equal beauty for which we have no space here for publi- 
cation. 

(Ilir Hiurr of Dratti 

There's a mystical stieam called the River of Death, 
•And I've stood on its haunted shore, 

Wiiile a crowd swept along from the world's sunny heath — 
Some with shout as -of triumph, with garland and wreath, 
Some weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth, 
Others come with no thought of the cold waves beneath, 
As they step from the brink to the River of Death, 
Its waters unknown to explore. 

It is fearful to gaze on the wonderful throng. 

Who visit that perilous stream ; 

There the great with whose glories the wide world hath rung. 

And the brave into strength of proud manhood just sprung, 

And the lovely and fair such as poets have sung, 

And the gay o'er whose lives scarce a cloudlet hath hung, 

And the rich and the poor, and the old and the young, 

Flit by like the forms in a dream. 



172 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Thro' the valley of shadow this river doth sweep, 
With a wild and mystical sound, 
Nof 'tis fearfully loud, now 'tis wondrously deep, 
Now soft as the strains that lull'd childhood to sleep. 
Plaintive now — anon wailing — then heard but to weep. 
Such the varying tones that its wild waters keep, 
And that echo flings back from each shadowy steep 
Of the ghoul-haunted region around. 

Full many, I ween, gayly enter that vale, 
To the sound of the timbrel and lute; 

And they speed on their way light as flakes of white sail. 
As the blue waters sparkle and dance to the gale, 
When this world seems too fair for its fashions to fail. 
Where gay song and sweet laughter and gladness prevail, 
Tho' the river's deep voice may be heard in the dale, 
If the revellers a moment are mute. 

They will not believe that their broad summer way, 

Windeth down to the waters apace ; 

While the birds sing so sweetly, the woods are so gay. 

And charm'd odors are floating wherever they stray — 

Oh ! they heed not the preacher, nor mark with dismay 

How the shadows steal forth in a noiseless array. 

Till in blackness of darkness, they feel the cold spray 

Of the River of Death in their face. 

Yet thro' all these gay windings, one path doth extend 
Which always may safely be trod. 
Tho' the storm's mark be on it, fear not to descend. 
For a light with its course thro' the valley doth blend, 
Which shines more and more as the gloom doth impend, 
And the crossing is sure that you'll find at the end. 
Where it spans the dark river, and thence doth ascend 
To its Source in the day-spring of days without end. 
All ablaze with the glory of God. 



-Samuel Jenkins Hay. 



^ift 3Flag of iJIatiaaaaa 

Baptiz'd in blood where Jackson fell, 
Flag of the South, wave on ! 
Oft sinking 'neath the rising knell 
For those we cannot love too well, 
The victor's shout may scarcely swell, 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 173 

Fields may be lost and won : 

But wliilc on earth man strikes for right, 

And God above is just, 

Thro' stormy day and starless night 

Thy stars shall be our guiding light, 

The' torn and tatter'd in the fight. 

Thou shalt not trail the dust! 



Thy bars upon the breeze are spread 

To break a tyrant's chain ; 

The cause for which our fathers bled. 

In which the first of mortals led, 

And fought 'til vict'ry crown'd his head. 

Our God will still sustain : 

Tho' we have sinn'd against his grace, 

Ungrateful for the past, 

He will not always hide his face. 

When humbl'd we our steps retrace. 

He'll lead us like his chosen race 

Thro' war's "Red Sea" at last. 



Then wave, thou Flag of Liberty, 

Already laurel crown'd ! 

The voice of blood pour'd out for thee, 

Rich blood to make a nation free. 

Is rising from the ground : 

Its pleading tones, our Maker hears. 

And will not hear in vain. 

He'll wipe away the widow's tears, 

And guard the orphan's tender years, 

And break our foeman's guilty spears. 

And truth and right maintain. 

— Samuel J. Hay. 

DruD ffltBrrratur 

Tis the sound of a nation's agonized wail, 

Tis the voice of a people borne high on each gale, 

Tis the blood of the murder'd which cries from the vale, 

Pitying Savior, attend us ! 
'Tis the groan of the weak in their strife with the strong, 
'Tis the moan of the desolate patient of wrong, 
While the pathway to peace looks rugged and long, 

Pitying Savior, defend us ! 



174 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

'Tis the deep smother'd sob in the hush of the night, 
For the lov'd and the lost who have vanish'd from sight, 
For the friend or the brother struck down in the fight, 

Pitying Savior, behold us ! 
Will a day never dawn — a day of release, 
Oh, hasten the time when these troubles shall cease. 
And soon in the light of thy love, Prince of Peace, 

Pitying Savior, enfold us ! 

Oh, comfort the hearts now broken with woe. 
Oh, lift up the heads in sorrow bow'd low. 
And spread o'er this storm thy celestial bow, 

Pitying Savior, O hear us ! 
And when thro' the aisles of thy church there shall sweep, 
A mighty "Te Deum," while the thunders that sleep 
In the organ, now wake with a grand, joyous leap, 

Pitying Savior, be near us ! 

— Hugh Peronneau Dawes Hay. 








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I LIZA MARY HAY OF McPHERSONVILLE, 

E^ BEAUFORT DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 
^ was the 2d child and only daughter of Samuel and 
^ Elizabeth Mary Hay of Grimball Hill, and a grand- 
daughter of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay and his wife 
Martha Smith. 

She was born at "Grimball llill," Ijcaufort District, S. C, on 
the 9th day of August, 1803, and died at ]\IcPhersonville, S. C, and 
was buried at Stoney Creek, ten miles south of that village. Her 
mother died in the 27th year of her age, twenty days after this 
daughter's birth, and her father one year later in the 33d year of 
his age. Her brother William Henry, and herself thus left orphans 
when babies, were reared by their step-grandmother, Mrs. Rachel 
Postell, nee Porcher. A peculiarly tender affection lasting to the 
end of life existed between the orphans; and their uncle, Colonel 
Frederick Hay (who had been sent for with Martha Smith Hay 
his mother by Samuel Hay the father of these children to come to 
him in South Carolina from Haverstraw, X. Y.), was always de- 
voted to them. She married at McPhersonville, S. C, on the 15th 
July 1819, Thomas Hutson Colcock, eldest son of Judge Charles 
J. Colcock. 

Eliza Mary Hay by her husband Thomas H. Colcock (born 10 
August 1807, died 6 May 1851, bu. at Stoney Creek, near McPher- 
sonville. S. C, a member of the "Nullification Convention," and 
although he had been admitted to the bar, was a Southern Planter 
of the olden time), had the following children: — 

i. Colonel Charles Jones Colcock, whose history follows in Section 

XXV— B. 

ii. William Hutson Colcock, b. 2 Nov. 1821, m. 15 Apl. 1840, Mary 
I Ellen, dau. of Colonel William Lynn Lewis, descendant of 
I Colonel John Lewis, the pioneer settler of Augusta Co., Va., by 



176 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

whom children:—!. William Lewis, b. 1840, d. 1842; ii. Elizabeth 
Hay Colcock, b. 19 July 1842, m. John Bailey and had issue, 
Lewis, Minnie, m. Richard Reed of Kentucky; John, d., 
Thomas, Errol, m. Langdon Cheves Mobley of Florida; Eliza- 
beth, d., Lily, Peyton, and Lawton ; iii. Thomas Hutson Col- 
cock, b. 27 Oct. 1845, m. Sallie, dau. Mr. Joseph Lawton, both 
d.s.p.; iv. Anna Stuart Colcock, b. 26 Nov. 1847, m. 27 Sept. 
i860, Abram Marshall Martin of Beaufort Co. (later Hampton 
Co.), S. C, removed to Ocala, Fla., of which town he was at 
one time mayor; he is now deceased, leaving by his wife, still 
living in Ocala, the following children, Elizabeth Mary, b. 1873, 
m. Edward Hoffman (3 sons, Abram Sandiman, Henry Sin- 
clair, and Edward Herman) ; Annie Lewis, b. 1877, m. David 
S. Woodrow (one child, Annie Blair) ; Lavolotte Holmes, b. 
1880. 

iii. Captain Richard Hutson Colcock, b. 18 Aug. 1823, d. 15 Sept. 
1901, and b. at Stoney Creek. He commanded the Charleston 
Light Dragoons in the war of 1861-65, and before the war re- 
sided in Charleston, S. C, and was junior partner in the firm 
of John Colcock & Co. 

He m. his cousin Eliza Mary, dau. of Mr. John Colcock of 
the above cotton firm, and by her (still living in McPherson- 
ville, S. C.) had children :— Mary Mellicent, Esther Hutson, 
John, d. ; Eliza Mary, and Martha Anna. 

iv. Samuel Hay Colcock, d.s.p. 

V. Esther Hutson Colcock, b. Jan., 1831, d. 25 July 1893; married 
William Douglas Gregorie of McPhersonville, S. C, now de- 
ceased, and left one surviving child : — Mary Woodward Col- 
cock Gregorie, m. her cousin Marion Woodward, son of the 
Hon. William Ferguson Colcock, by whom several children. 

vi. Thomas Hutson Colcock, b. in March, 1835, m. in Nov., 1874, 
Mary Fuller, dau. of Governor A. G. Magrath. She d. 1881, 
and he d. 29 June 1900, and both are bu. at Magnolia Cemetery, 
■where they had previously interred their only children. 

After the death of his first wife, EHza Mary Hay, Thomas 
Hutson Colcock married a 26. time and left children, who have mar- 
ried and left descendants living in Washington, D. C, Yorkville 
and Spartanburg, S. C. 




CtDpntpfiUf) (feneration— iB 



PLONEL CHARLES JONES COLCOCK OF 
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, was the 
eldest son of Eliza Mary Hay (vide XXIV — B) by 
her husband Thomas Hutson Colcock of McPher- 
sonville, S. C. 

He was born on the 30th of April, 1820, at 
"Green Oak Forest," three miles north of the "Boiling Springs," 
Barnwell District, S. C, where his mother, whose home was in 
Beaufort District, was on a visit to her uncle, Colonel Frederick 
Hay of the War of 18 12, youngest son of Colonel Ann Hawkes 
Hay, of the War of 1775-76. 

He first attended an excellent boarding school, "The Boiling 
Springs Academy," and at an early age was taken to Charleston, 
S. C, by his grandfather, Judge Charles J. Colcock, with whom he 
subsequently lived until grown, and was educated at the best 
schools in that city. Later he established the house of "Fackler and 
Colcock," succeeded by that of "Colcock, AlcCauley and Molloy," 
conducting an extensive cotton-factorage business, throughout the 
States of Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina, with head- 
quarters in Charleston. In connection with this business, he owned 
a plantation adjoining "Foot-Point," managed by an overseer, and 
planted Sea-island Cotton. 

Of strong magnetic personality, he wielded great influence in 
commercial and political circles, exerted frequently for the benefit 
of others and in promoting enterprises of a public nature. 

He was a director of the Bank of the State ; a director of the 
Memphis, Chattanooga and Charleston Railroad ; established 
a line of steamers to run between Charleston and Savan- 
nah, touching at plantation wharves in the tide water region ; and 
organized a company for constructing the Charleston and Savannah 
Railroad, of which he was an influential director. He was, also, 

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178 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

the originator of the "The Foot-Point Land Company," which was 
chartered and began operations for building a railroad terminating 
at "Foot-Point," — the natural and expansive deep-sea port of Broad 
River, where a great city was to be founded — but all these opera- 
tions were arrested by the Civil War. 

On the breaking out of this war, he was Captain of the Ashley 
Dragoons of Charleston, but soon raised the 3d South Carolina 
Cavalry Regiment, which he commanded throughout the ensuing 
struggle, and succeeding General "Live Oak Walker," as "acting 
general," having charge during the last eighteen months of the war, 
of the 3d Military District of the Confederate States Government, 
extending from the Ashepoo to the Savannah River, and along the 
coast. In November, 1864, he posted the troops and commanded 
at the "Battle of Honey Hill," near Grahamville, S. C, where, after 
a fierce contest of ten hours, 6000 Federals were driven back, with 
the loss of 1000 killed and wounded, by 1400 Confederates, who 
lost but 40 men. A detailed account of this battle is published in 
the "Charleston Sunday News," of date loth Dec. 1899, and fills 
about 12 columns. He likewise commanded and led a brilliant 
cavalry fight at Florence, S. C, where credit for victory has been 
given to a general who had crossed the river and was many miles 
away, having left Colonel Colcock in command of the rear of the 
retreating Confederate Army. 

After the Civil War between the States had ended, it was Col- 
onel Colcock who first suggested that the large store of provisions 
accumulated by the Federal Government on the Southern coast, 
should be advanced to the planters, and thus many Southern plant- 
ers, whose resources had been exhausted by the protracted struggle, 
were enabled to reclaim their lands and resume their occupation. 
The Government later, with great generosity, canceled this obliga- 
tion by a people, the results of whose industrial operations had 
been swept away by the cotton caterpillar for several consecutive 
years. 

Encouraged by high prices of sea island cotton. Colonel Col- 
cock made the mistake of not resuming the "Factorage Business" 
subsequent to the war, but operated several large plantations, and 
although the crops were always promising, they were destroyed by 
the "worm" ; losing heavily, he finally removed to a short-staple- 



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cotton plantation in Hampton County, where he died of pneumonia, 
A. D. 1891, on the 22d of October, and was buried at "Stoney 
Creek" cemetery, near McPhersonville. A tablet to his honor has 
been placed in the Hampton Court House by the survivors of his 
regiment, and a Confederate camp named for him. In a memorial 
tribute to Colonel Colcock, in brochure. Captain William A. Courte- 
nay wTites : — "It may be said of him as of another knightly leader 
of men — 

"Wher'er he fought, 

Put so much of his heart into his act, 

That his example had a magnet's force. 

And all were swift to follow whom all loved." 
It has been seen he was the eldest son of Eliza Mary Hay by 
her husband Thomas Hutson Colcock, whose lineage will be found 
in the following sketch. 

Slir 3FamUg of (taUatk 

Thomas Hutson Colcock (for record of whose children see 
Eliza Mary Hay, Section XXIV — B), b. 10 Aug. 1797, was ad- 
mitted to the bar 1818, m. ist, 15 July 1819, Eliza Mary Hay. He 
was a member of the Nullification Convention 1832-33. Follow- 
ing the avocation of a planter in Beaufort District, S. C, he d. 6 
May 185 1, and was bu. at Stoney Creek Church. He was eldest 
son of Judge Charles Jones Colcock, b. in Charleston, S. C, 11 
Aug. 1771, baptised at St. Michael's Church, on the 30th October 
following, by the Rev. Robert Cooper, whose sponsors were his 
great-aunt, ]\Irs. Rebecca Motte of the arrow incident of the Revo- 
lution, Jacob Motte, and Robert William Powell. 

Graduated at Princeton College, N. J., A. D. 1788, Judge Col- 
cock studied law in the office of the Hon. Henry William DeSaus- 
sure and was admitted to practice at the Charleston bar in 1792. 
Not long after, he was elected Solicitor of the Southern Circuit, 
returned twice to the South Carolina House of Representatives, 
1804 and 1808, was elected by the Legislature Circuit Judge, Asso- 
ciate Judge, and one of the three Judges of the Court of Appeals, 
over which he at times presided. He was next elected President of 
the Bank of the State, holding this responsible position until his 
death. He commanded a fine cavalry company at Xincty-Six, S. C, 
was a patron of the Charleston Library, being one of the "Brick 
Members," one of the founders of St. Peter's Church, burned in 



i8o THE FAMILY OF HAY 

the fire of 1861, was President of the Board of Trustees of the 
Charleston Aledical College, a member of the South Carolina So- 
ciety, and installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South 
Carolina Ancient York Masons, A. D. 1816. 

He d. in the sixty-eighth year of his age, 26 January 1839, at 
Charleston, and was buried in St. Peter's churchyard. 

He married at her father's home, near McPhersonville, S. C, 
A. D. 1795, Mary Woodward, b. 23 Nov. 1774, daughter of Major 
Thomas Hutson, an officer in Marion's Volunteers of the Revolu- 
tion (pay warrants to him for services as Captain and Major are 
on file in the archives at Columbia), by his wife Esther, daughter 
of William Maine by his wife Judith, daughter of Henry Gignilliat 
by his wife Esther (aunt of Gen. Francis Marion), daughter of 
Judith Baluet by her husband Benjamin Marion, son of Perinne 
Boutignon by her husband Jean Marion, son of Gabriel Marion of 
Rochelle, France. 

Henry Gignilliat was the son of Jean Francois Gignilliat, born 
at Venay, in Switzerland (son of Abraham Gignilliat by his wife 
Marie de Ville) by his wife Suzanne Le Serrurier, French Hugue- 
not refugees, settling in South Carolina on the Santee River, just 
after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, A. D. 1685 ; Suzanne 
was the dau. of Jacques Le Serrurier (one of this name was a mar- 
shall of France). 

Jacques Le Serrurier by his wife Elizabeth Le Ger, had four 
da jghters : — i. Catherine, who m. the Hon. Henry Le Noble and 
were pregenitors of many of the Marions, DeVeaux, DuBoses, 
Hamptons, Mazycks, Ravenels, and Dwights ; ii. Marianne Le Ser- 
rurier, married Isaac Mazyck; iii. Madame Pierre of St. Julian, 
from whom descend the families of Jervey and others ; iv. Suzanne 
Le Serrurier, m. Jean Francois De Gignilliat, from whom derive the 
family of Colcock, and a branch of Hutson, etc. 

The children of the Rev. William Hutson by his wife, Mrs. 
Chardon, nee Mary Woodward, were : — Mary Hutson, m. Arthur 
Peronneau ; Elizabeth, m. Isaac Hayne, the martyr ; Richard Hut- 
son, the Chancellor, an exile to St. Augustine and first Intendant 
of Charleston; Major Thomas Hutson, m, Esther Maine, as men- 
tioned above ; Esther Hutson, m. William Hazzard Wigg ; and 
Anne Hutson, m. Gen. John Barnwell. 



THE FAMILY OF HAY i8i 

(From Jacques Le Surruricr and the Rev. William Hutson 
and his wives descend many families of tiie seaboard of South 
Carolina.) 

Major Thomas Hutson, whose dauj^^hter married Judge Col- 
cock, was a son of the Rev. William Hutson (who came out from 
England, and was minister of the First Circular Church of Charles- 
ton ; he m. 2d the widow of Hugh Hryan and is buried with both 
wives in the churchyard of the Circular Church on Meeting Street, 
Charleston, S. C), by his first wife Mrs. Chardon, nee Mary Wood- 
ward (relict of Isaac Chardon, whose ist wife was Marie, dan. of 
Isaac Mazyck and Marianne Le Surruricr), daughter of Colonel 
Richard Woodward (son of Dr. Henry Woodward, first permanent 
English settler in South Carolina, 1766, who was left in the San- 
ford expedition among the Indians at Port Royal, and taking 
formal possession of the country for England, learned the language 
of the Indians, and ever after remained their steadfast friend; he 
was later a member of the South Carolina Colonial Council, and 
m. Mary, dau. of Colonel John Godfrey, member of Council, and 
Acting Governor of the Colony), by his wife Sarah, b. 20 Nov. 1690, 
dau. of James Stanyarne. b. 1661, d. 1703, member of the South 
Carolina House of Commons under the Proprietary Government, 
by his wife Rachel (said to have been a daughter of Jonathan Fitch, 
member of the Colonial House of Commons). 

Judge Colcock had the following children by his wife Mary 
Woodward Hutson : — 

i, Thomas Hutson Colcock, b. 10 August 1797, was admitted to the 

bar 1818, m. 15 July 1819, Eliza Mary Hay, b. 9 Aug. 1803, and 
had children, whose records have been given in Section or 
Chapter XXIV — B, in the course of their mother's history 
which see. 

By a second marriage he had children: — Eliza Hay, b. 1846, 
m. 1865, Adolphus Moore of Yorkville, S. C. d. 1886. leaving 
several children ; Joseph W. Colcock, b. 1847, drowned at Gal- 
veston, Texas; William Hutson Colcock, b. 1849, d. 1890, m. 
1872, Miss Twitty of Spartanburg and had childhen, Ethel and 
a 2(1 dau.; and James Dunwody Colcock, b. 1851. m. 1883, Mary 
Elizabeth Park, by whom children, Edward Rowland and 
Thomas Hutson Colcock. 

ii. John Colcock, b. 6 Mch. 1799, d. 24 June 1872, leaving surviving 
issue:— Arelliccnt. b. 1828; Eliza Mary, b. 10 June 1830; and 
Martha Anna, b. 30 Jan. 1833; all living and the last two mar- 



i82 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

ried and have issue. Mr. John Colcock was a cotton factor in 
Charleston of the firm of "Colcock & Co.," doing an extensive 
business before the war of 1861-66. 

iii. William Ferguson Colcock, b. 5 Nov. 1804, d. 1889, was grad- 
uated with first honors at the South Carolina College 1821 ; 
was admitted to the bar 1825, and entered upon the practice 
of law at Coosawhatchie, Beaufort District; was elected to 
the House of Representatives from Prince Williams Parish 
1838-40-42-44-46, and was Speaker from 1840 to 1848; was 
elected to Congress from the 7th Congressional District of 
S. C. 1848 and re-elected 1850, and 1853 was appointed Collector 
of the Port of Charleston by President Pierce, holding that 
office until 1865. He was likewise a Regent of the Smithsonian 
Institute at Washington, D. C. 

He m. 1st 1829, Sarah Huguenin, who dying six months later, 
he m. 2d Emmeline Lucia, sister to his first wife and by her 
had children: — i. Edgar Huguenin, b. 1840, d. 1858; ii. Emmeline 
Sarah, b. 1841, d. 1861 ; iii. William Ferguson, b. 1843, m. Hen- 
rietta Toomcr and has a surviving daughter, Annie Toomer, 
authoress and artist; iv. Cornelius Julius, b. 1845, admitted to 
the bar, elected to the S. C. Legislature 1898, 1900, and 1902, 
m. 1890, Pauline Ladson Mew, and has children, Pauline Lad- 
son, Clarence Huguenin, and May Clementine ; v. Mary Anna, 
b. 1847, m. 1869, Dr. Joseph Dewees, and d. 1889, leaving chil- 
dren, Emmeline, m. Joseph W. Lyman of Louisiana, Amelia Le- 
queux, and Henrietta; vi. Theodora Octavia, b. 1849, m. 1868, 
Charles Jones Colcock Hutson (deceased) and has living chil- 
dren, Richard, married and Clerk of the U. S. Court of South 
Carolina; William Colcock, married and has issue, Mary Anna, 
James Gregorie, Theodora Colcock, Louise d'Aubrey; vii. Henry 
Hay, b. 1851 ; viii. Franklin Pierce, b. 1853, m. 1899, Isabel 
Eraser Cunningham, and has a daughter, Laurie Isabel ; ix. 
Marion Woodward, b. 1856, m. ist 1884, Sarah Hutson, dau. 
Dr. Thomas W. Hutson, Sr., see XXIII — A, sketch of Thomas 
Hay ; m. 2d 1900, Mary Woodward Colcock Gregorie, dau. of 
Esther Colcock by her husband William D. Gregorie, by the 
1st marriage, Marion, Dessie, Franklin, Henrietta, and by the 
2d marriage, children, William, Harry and Esther; x. Adelaide 
Huguenin Colcock, b. 3 Sept. 1858. 

iv. Richard Woodward Colcock, b. 6 June 1806, entered West Point 
1822, from which he was graduated 1826, in the class with Al- 
bert Sidney Johnston. He resigned a Lieutenancy in the 
army to study law and was admitted to the bar at Columbia, 
S. C, in 1842. In view of his high character and military 
training, he was appointed Superintendent of the Citadel Acad- 
emy, in 1844, into which he introduced the military feature; 



THE I-AMILY OF HAY 183 

later he was appointed to a position in the Custom House of 
CharKston, and d. 14 Aug. 1856, and In:, in St. Michael's 
churchyard. 

Having ni. 18-13, ^I's cou.sin Millicent Jane Racot, hy her he 
left at his death surviving children : — i. Charles J. Colcock, b, 
4 Apl. i84-t, recently deceased, who m. 1870, Margaret Seabrook 
Smith (and had children, Margaret Hamilton, m. 1900 George 
Carroll of Jacksonville, Fin.; Daniel DeSaussure, b. 1879; Mai 
North, b. 1882, m. John Alfred Calhoun of Charleston and has 
two children; Millicent Woodward Colcock, b. 1S86) ; ii. Daniel 
DeSaussure Colcock, b. 22 Jan. 1846, m. ist Augusta, dau. of 
the eminent Presbyterian Divine, Dr. Ben Palmer of S. C. and 
New Orleans, she d. 1875, and he m. 2d 1S80, Mattie Ruge'.ey, 
dau. of A. J. Rugeley by his wife Ellen Blair (and has the 
following children: — by ist marriage, Augusta Palmer, b. 1874, 
and by the last marriage, Richard Woodward, b. 1880, Mary 
Rugeley, b. 1882; Daniel De Saussure, b. 1884, and William Fer- 
guson, b. 1898); iii. Richard Hutson Colcock, b. 5 May 1850, 
m. in New Orleans, La., 1873, Agnes Hannah Stockman (by 
whom children: — Isabel, b. 1874, m. 1900; Walter Wingate 
Carre of New Orleans; John, b. 1875; Richard Hutson, Jr., b. 
1877; Agnes, b. 1880; James Stockman, b. 1896). 
V. Charles Jones Colcock, died young. 

The parents of Judge Cliarles Jones Colcock were John Col- 
cock, Jr., and his wife Millicent, daughter of Joseph Jones (and 
sister of Major John Jones, who fell in the war of 1776-83, at the 
siege of Savannah) by his wife Mary (daughter of Robert, eldest 
son of Colonel Miles Brewton), sister of Miles Brewton, Jr., who 
m. Mary Izard and built the famous colonial mansion known as No. 
25 King Street, Charleston, S. C, in which he entertained Josiah 
Quincy, Jr., m 1773, and his brother-in-law, Lord William Camp- 
bell, in 1775. used as Colonel Balfour's headquarters in the Revolu- 
tion and as General Howard's headquarters in the war of 1861-65. 
Mary Brewton, grandmother of Judge Colcock, had the following 
half-sisters: — Frances Brewton, b. 1733. m. 1753, her first cousin 
Charles Pinckncy, and was mother of the celebrated Charles Pinck- 
ney; Rebecca Brewton, b. 15 June 1737, m. 1758. Jacob Motte, and 
is noted for the arrow incident of the Revolutionary War. (An in- 
teresting and correct account of this story, which rests upon the 
authority of a letter from her grandson Charles Coteswoth Pinck- 
ney, to the Columbia Carolinian, is published in the second volume 
of "The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine," 



i84 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

page 149, in a sketch written by its editor, Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., 
now State Historian.) 

John Colcock, Jr., was b. at Charleston, S. C, 6 June 1744, and 
d. 21 August 1782. He was admitted to the practice of law at 
Charleston in the Court of Common Pleas, 1767 ; was Secretary and 
Correspondent of the Charleston Library Society (now the 
Charleston Library) in 1769; was Justice of the Peace for Berkeley 
Co. in 1769; in 1772, was Deputy Clerk C. & P. for the Southern 
Circuit (Districts of Ninety-Six, Orangeburg, Charleston, and 
Beaufort) ; in 1775-76 was Assistant to the Commissary-General 
(Thomas Farr, Jr.) of S. C. ; was a member of the First Provincial 
Congress of S. C. 1775 ; and was Secretary of the Privy Council 
in the opening year of the Revolutionary War. His defence of 
Isaac Hayne, the martyr, may be read in Ramsay's History of the 
Revolution, and in Gibbes' Documentary History of South Caro- 
lina. (For a sketch of John Colcock, see Vol. iii, p. 218, South 
Carolina Historical Magazine, by A. S. Salley, Jr.) He was m. 
in St. Michael's Church, 30 Oct. 1768, to Millicent Jones of whom 
above ; and was the fourth child of Captain John Colcock, merchant 
of Charleston, and Justice of the Peace, by his wife Deborah Milner, 
to whom he was m. in Charles Town, 13 July 1732. 

Captain John Colcock came out from England in command of 
a sailing vessel and was the son of parents of that kingdom, but 
abandoned the sea after marriage, and settled down in Charles 
Town as a merchant, being appointed Justice of the Peace by Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Lyttleton. He is the ancestor of all of the name 
in South Carolina, and d. at the close of 1756. (Vide Vol. Ill, p. 
217, of "The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine.) 

Colonel Charles J. Colcock, eldest son of Eliza Mary Hay by 
her husband Thomas H. Colcock, — whose maternal lineage is con- 
tained in the consecutive chapters of this volume, and whose 
paternal lineage is presented in the foregoing sketch — vras three 
times married: — 

He married ist, in Charleston, S. C, A. D. 1838 or 1839, Mary 
Caroline Heyward, granddaughter of Thomas Heyward, Jr., a 
Signer of The Declaration of Independence, by whom the first two 
children mentioned below. 

He married 2d at her home near Huntsville, Ala., on the 8th of 
January, 185 1, Lucy Frances Horton, daughter of the Hon. Rhodah 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 185 

Horton by his wife Lucy Otey, first cousin of Bishop James Her- 
vey Otey of Tennessee, the orig-inator and first Chancellor of "The 
University of the South," at Sewanee, by whom the third, fourth, 
and fifth child mentioned below (she d. in Charleston, Apl. 1862, 
and bu. at Magnolia Cemetery). 

He married 3d near Robertville, S. C, Dec. 1864, Af^nes, 
youngest child of Mr. Benjamin Bostick, who is still living, and 
by her had the last five children mentioned below. 

Colonel Colcock by his three marriages had the following chil- 
dren : — 

i. John Colcock, b. 7 Aug. 1843, was a member of the 3d. S. C. 

Cavalry during the Civil War, and d.s. 6 Mch. 1877. 

55. Caroline Ann Colcock, b. 4 Nov. 1840, d. 18 Sept. 1855. 

iii. Charles Jones Colcock, b. in Beaufort District, S. C, 17 Jan. 
1852, attended the College of Charleston for two years, and 
was graduated at Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., where 
he taught mathematics for three years, and is now Head Master 
of the Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S. C, where he 
was prepared for college. He married his cousin, Patti Lee 
Hay, daughter of Judge Samuel Hay (vide Section XXV — A) 
by his wife, Susan, daughter of Colonel Frederick Hay, young- 
est son of Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay (Section XXH) and by 
her had children: — (He is the writer of this book.) 

i. Samuel Hay Colcock, died in Charleston at the age of 
six months, and was buried at Magnolia Cemetery, 
ii. Errol Hay Colcock (a daughter), now a schoolgirl. 

iv. Francis Horton Colcock, b. at "Bellevue," near Huntsville, Ala. 
Prepared for college at "The Holy Communion Institute," now 
changed to "The Porter Military Academy" in honor of its 
great and good founder; he was graduated at Union College 
A. D. 1877. He studied law in the office of General James 
Connor of Charleston, S. C, where he was admitted to the 
bar, and practiced law for a few years. He is now Professor 
of Mathematics at the South Carolina University, Columbia, 
S. C. 

He m. Mary Robert, daughter of ^^r. Seaborn Jones by his 
wife Jennie Bostick, of Screven County, Georgia, by whom 
children: — i. Francis Horton, deceased; ii. Anna Eustace, m. 
Alva DePass, attorney-at-law in Columbia, and has a little 
daughter, Anna; iii. Charles Jones; iv. Frances Horton; v. 
Seaborn Jones Colcock. 

V. Errol Hay Colcock, b. at "Bellevue," Ala., t July 185Q, d. in 
Hampton County of a congestive chill, 6 Oct. 1882, and bu. at 
Stoney Creek, Beaufort County. 



1 86 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

vi. Catherine Colcock, b. 9 Sept. 1865, now living in New Orleans 
with her husband, Robert Godin Guerard of Savannah, Ga. 

vii. Helen Mclver Colcock, b. 3 Jan. 1865, now living in Grahamville, 
S. C. ; she married Charles Colcock Gregorie, son of Dr. Thomas 
Gregorie of Grahamville, S. C, by whom the following chil- 
dren : — Agnes ; Thomas ; Charles ; Louisa ; and Joseph Greg- 
orie. 

viii. Woodward Hutson Colcock, b. 11 Sept. 1869, d. 23 Sept. 1885, is 
buried at "Stoney Creek." 

ix. William Bostick Colcock, b. 7 July 1872, living in Florida. 

X. Agnes J. Colcock, b. 22 July 1877, d. 19 Oct. 1884, at the early 
age of seven years. 



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A reader of our manuscript having directed attention to the 
omission of the Hues of descent of Colonel Hay from the Scan- 
dinavian Count Rognvald throuj^^h the family of Bruce, and from 
the Emperor Charlemagne, and the Saxon King, Alfred the Great, 
we add the following tables, making them as concise as is consistent 
with historical clearness. 

Conclu£(ion 

TABLE I. 

Descent of Colonel Hay from the early Norse Kings : — 

1. Rognvald, Count of Moeri and Earl of Orkney, was the son of 

Eistein, son of Thebotan Duke of Sleswick by his wife Ascrida, 
daughter of Rognvald, son of Olaus (Olaf) King of Norway. 

2. Torf Eynor, his son, was also Earl of Orkney. For an account of 

his exploits, refer to the Saga of Harald Haarfager, introduced 
into the earlier part of this work. 

3. Thorfinn, his son, Earl of Orkney, married Goriola, daughter of 

Duncan, Earl of Caithness. 

4. Hlodver, their son, Earl of Orkney, married 2d Gudna, daughter 

of Kiarval, King of Ireland. 

5. Sigurt Lodvison, their son. Earl of Orkney, married ist Olith 

(Alice), daughter of King Malcolm II., and had a son the 
great Earl Thorfinn, m. 2d Thora,' only child of King Hacon 
the Good, son of King Harald Haarfager by his wife Thora, 
and by her had sons, Somerled, Brusee, and Eynor. 

6. Brusee, son, was Earl of a part of Orknej-, and died A. D. 1033. 

7. Rognvald Brucesson (son of Brusee) married Ostrida, daugh- 
ter of Rognvald Wolf sen, and was Earl of Gothland. 

He accompanied his cousin Ingigred, dauglUer of King Olaf, 
to Russia on., her way to wed Jarislief, King of Russia (by 
whom she had sons, Valdimar and Visiwald). 

Rognvald was granted the Earldom of Ladoga by the Queen. 
He had an adventurous career, going to the Holy Land to fight 
the Saracens, and residing for a time at .Constantinople. 

He was murdered A. D. 1046, by Aldred, son of Uchtred, Earl 
of Northumberland, and left two sons: — FylifF and Ulf. It is 
said that these sons settled in Normandy, then in possession of 
their kinsman, Robert, Duke of Normandy, likewise descended 
from Count Rognvald ; were baptised Christians, taking the 
names Regenvald and Robert, from whom descend the family 
of Bruce in England and Scotland. 

We shall consider the posterity of Robert. 



i88 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

8. Robert de Brusee, youngest son of Rognvald Brucesson, built in 

Normandy the castle of Brussee or Brux near Valognes, mar- 
ried Emma, daughter of Allan, Lord of Brittany, and had 
sons: — Alan, Lord Brix and Adelme (or Adam). 

9. Adelme, or Adam Brus, 2d son of Robert, came to England 

with Queen Emma A. D. 1050, and upon her death retired to 
the north. Sixteen years later, on the invasion of England by 
Duke William, he was one of the Conqueror's generals, and, 
commissioned by him to subdue the north, was rewarded by 
a gift of 94 manors in Yorkshire, of which Skelton in Cleveland 
was the chief. He was likewise given lands in Scotland by 
Edgar, whom he had assisted in dethroning his uncle, Donald 
Bane. 

He married Emma, dau. of Sir William Ramsay, by whom 
he had sons : — Robert ; William, Prior of Gisborough ; Duncan ; 
and a dau., Rossilina, who married Walter de Moreville, Great 
Constable of Scotland. 

10. Sir Robert de Brus, Lord of Cleveland, son, married Agnes, 

daughter of Fulke of Paganell (his marriage a second time to 
an Agnes of Annand is said to be an invention — Annandale 
was a possession of his father Adelme) by whom sons: — Adam; 
and Robert le Meschin, to whom he gave Annandale and other 
Scotch estates. 
He was present at the Battle of the Standard and d. 1141. 

11. Robert de Brus, 2d son, was the ist Lord of Annandale. He 

was captured by his father at the Battle of the Standard, hav- 
ing espoused the cause of David L Delivered by his father a 
prisoner to King Stephen, he was given by the latter to his own 
mother in ward, and held for a time at Skelton. His father 
now added to his Scotch possessions by the grant of Herts and 
Hertnesse in Durham. By his wife, Euphemia, he had sons : — 
Robert, who m. Isabel dau. of William the Lion, but died s.p. ; 
and William. 

12. William de Brus, 2d son, succeeded his brother, sat in the Par- 

liament of King John, married Christina, d. 1215, and was 
buried at Gisborough Abbey. Issue : — Robert ; William ; John. 

13. Robert le Noble, succeeded his father William de Brus. He 

married Isobel, 2d dau. of David, Earl of Huntingdon, by his 
wife Maude, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester (son of Ralph 
de Gernous, 4th earl, son of Ralph or Randle de Meschnes, 
Viscounte de Bayeux, by Maud, sister of Hugh Lupus, ist earl, 
nephew to King William I., being his half-sister's son and d. 

IIOl). 

David, Earl of Huntingdon, was the 3d son of Henry, Prince 
of Scotland (son of King David I. by Maud, dau. of Waltheof) 
by his wife, The Lady Adeline de Warren, dau. of William, 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 189 

Earl of Warren and Surrey, by his wife Gunnora, youngest 
daughter of William the Conqueror, by his wife Matilda of 
l-'landers, whose descent from the Emperor Charlemagne will 
be given presently. 

David of Huntingdon and his wife Adeline de Warren, 
had children: — John le Scot, m. Helena, dau. of Llewellen, 
Prince of Wales, poisoned by his wife; ii. Margaret, m. 1207, 
Alan, Lord of Galloway; iii. Isobel, m. Robert de Brus; iv. 
Maude, d.s.; v. Ada, m. Henry of Hastings — from these 
sisters descended the competitors for the crown in 1290. 
He was styled Lord of Annandale and d. 1245, his wife, b. 
1226, d. 1251, and both were buried at Saltre Abbey, near 
Stilton, beside David of Huntingdon. They left sons: — 
Robert and Richard. 

14. Robert Brus, the Competitor, eldest son, was b. 1210, and d. at 

Lochmabcn, 1295. He was Sheriff of Cumberland and Gover- 
nor of Carlisle Castle, and had the delivery of his mother's 
estates as one of the co-heirs of John le Scot, Earl of Chesteir 
and Huntingdon, as well as many other estates in Scotland and 
England. 

He was nominated a regent of Scotland and guardian of 
Alexander H., and his child-queen, Margaret, dau. of Henry 
HL He was signed with the Cross, and accompanied Edward 
to the Holy Land. Upon the death of "The Maid of Norway," 
he summoned his friends to his Castle, Turnbcrry, and advanced 
his claims to the Scottish throne, awarded by Edward I. to 
John Balliol. 

He m. 1242-44, Isabel de Clare, daughter of Gilbert, 3d Earl 
of Gloucester, by whom 5 children. 

15. Robert Brus, "viel counte of Carrick," eldest son, was born circa 

1245, appointed Governor of Carlisle, he accompanied Prince 
Edward to the Holy Land. On his return, he met Marjorie, 
only daughter of Niel, Earl of Carrick, while hawking, and as 
she was a beautiful girl and rich heiress, he immediately lost 
his heart to her, and they were married A. D. 127 1 when she 
was but 15 years of age. She had been left an infant daughter 
of Margaret (daughter of Walter the High Steward) by her 
husband Niel, 2d Earl of Carrick, one of the Guardians of 
Scotland in 1255, son of Duncan, ist Earl of Carrick, who 
founded the Cross Raguel, son of Gilbert, d. A. D. 1186, son 
of Fergus, Lord of Galloway by h's wife Elizabeth, dau.-nat. 
of King Henry I. The Earl of Gloucester was likewise de- 
scended from King Henry I. 

Robert Brus, "viel counte of Carrick," had 5 sons and 7 
daughters: — Robert le jcune Counte, later King; Edward fell 



I90 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

at the Battle of Dundalk, 1318; Thomas and Alexander, be- 
headed at Carlisle ; Sir Nigel or Niel, beheaded at Berwick. 

Of the daughters, Lady Isabel Bruce m. Sir Thomas Ran- 
dolph of Strathdon (vide Earls of Moray, Dunbar, and March 
in an earlier part of this work) ; Lady Mary Bruce m. Sir Alex- 
ander Fraser (vide Family of Fraser in this work) ; Lady 
Christian Bruce m. Gratney, nth Earl of Mar (vide Families 
of Mar and of Sutherland in this work) ; Lady Matilda or 
Maud m. Hugh, Earl of Ross ; Lady Margaret Bruce m. Sir 
William Carlyle ; Lady Elizabeth Bruce m. Sir William Dish- 
ington ; and an unknown daughter m. Sir David de Brechin. 

16. King Robert L, son, b. at Turnberry Castle, 11 July 1274, when 

17 years of age became Earl of Carrick. He was also Lord" 
of Annandale, Lord of the Garioch, etc., in Scotland, and Lord 
of Herts and of Hertnesse in Durham, and of many other Eng- 
lish possessions, for which he owed fealty to the English: 
sovereign. 

(For an account of his struggle for the Crown of Scotland, 
the reader is referred to the ist part of this work.) 

17. Marjorie Bruce, daughter, m. Walter the High Steward. 

18. King Robert H., son, married ist Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

Adam Mure of Rowallan, in county of Ayr. 

19. King Robert HL, son, whose name at first was John, married 

Annabella, daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall. 

20. The Princess Mary, 3d child, married Sir George Douglas, Earl 

of Angus, brother of the hero of Otterburn. (Vide Family of 
Douglas in this work.) 

21. The Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter, married, ist Sir Alexan- 

der, 1st Lord Forbes, m. 2d Sir David Hay of Yester, from 
whom the Earls and Marquises of Tweeddale. (Vide Family 
of Douglas, this work.) 

22. The Lady Forbes (a daughter) married Sir William Urquhart 

of Cromarty. (Vide Family of Urquhart in this work.) 

23. Sir Alexander Urquhart of Cromarty, son, married Katherine,. 

dau. of Sir James Ogilvie of Deskford. (Vide ibid.) 

24. Katherine Urquhart of Cromarty, daughter, married William 

the Hay of Lochloy. Vide Part U. of this work ; see also "The 
Bruces and the Cumyns," published at Edinburgh and London,, 
in 1870, by William Blackwood and Sons, pages 618-19-20-21.)- 
(A. D. 1511.) 

25. John the Hay of Lochloy, son, married Isobel Dunbar, d. 1554. 

(Vide ibid.) 

26. John the Hay, Lord of Lochloy and Park, son, d. 1598, married 

Janet Sutherland, daughter of William Sutherland of Duffus, 
descended from the Earls of Sutherland and ancestor to the 



THE FAMILY OF HAY 191 

Lords DufTiis of England. (Vide il)id ; also Burke's Landed 
Gentry; also History of Nairnshire.) 

27. George Ilay, 2d son, died ante 1600. (Vide ibid; also "The His- 

tory of Nairnshire," by George Bain.) 

28. Sir Alexander Hay of Easter Kennct, Director in Chancery and 

Clerk Register, and Lord of Sessions, son of George, charter 
1582, married Mariot Farquhar. (Vide "The Bruces and the 
Cumyns," p. 619. An account of Sir Alexander is given in "The 
Dictionary of National Biography.") 

29. Mr. John Hay, eldest son, married ^L'lriot Drummond (vide ibid). 

30. Mr. David Hay of Easter Kcnnet, Craigtovvn, Kennet Pans, and 

of Woodcockdale (sold Easter Kennet to Bruce, friar of Clack- 
mannan for 16,000 merks, A. D. 1638, vide ibid) and married 
Jean Winrhame (vide copies of documents given in the 2d 
part of tliis work under the section devoted to David Hay of 
Easter Kennet). 

He was the 2d son of Mr. John Hay and his wife Mariot 
Drummond, and had two sons: — John Hay of Woodcockdale 
and James Hay of Carruber or Carriber. 

31. James Hay of Carruber, 2d son, Clerk of Sessions, died A. D. 

1702, married Magdalen Robertson, of the family of Strowan, 
and had 4 sons and 2 daughters (vide Part H. of this work; 
also "The Bruces and the Cumyns"). 
22. Thomas Hay, son. Writer to the Signet, and Writer in Edin- 
burgh, of Bridgehouse, sometimes referred to as ''of Carriber," 
d. 1733, married Isabel Balfour, daughter of Michael Balfour, 
granddaughter of Sir David Balfour of Forret (vide the section 
of this work devoted to Thomas Hay of Bridgehouse, with 
copies of documents). 

33. Michael Hay of Kingston, Island of Jamaica, d. 1762, married 

Esther, daughter of Judge Martin Wilkins of Jamaica, W. L 
Eldest son of Thomas Hay by his wife Isabel Balfour (vide 
documents presented earlier in this work). 

34. Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, only son, b. 1745, removed to New 

York after his marriage to Martha, daughter of Judge William 
Smith of New York (vide the account of Colonel Hay presented 
earlier in this work). 

His descendants are now living in South Carolina, and in 
Raleigh, N. C. 

TABLE n. 

Descent of Colonel Hay from the Emperor Charlemagne and Wil- 
liam I. : — 

Referring to "The Family of Cumyn" in an earlier part of this book, 
it may be seen how Colonel Hay descends from the great emperor of the 



192 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Franks through that line; two other lines of descent will novr 
be given. 

1. Pepin d'Heristal, d. A. D. 714. A ruler of the Franks, he be- 

came Major Domus of Australasia A. D. 676 by his victory at 
Testri over all the Franks, styling himself Dux et Princeps 
Francorum in 687. 

2. Charles Martel, his son, was b. about 690, and d. 22 Oct. 741. 

He was Duke of Austria. 

3. Pepin the Short, his son, was King of the Franks. He aided 

the Pope in his wars, to whom he granted the exarchate of 
Ravenna, the Pentapolis, and territories of Bologna and Fer- 
rara, thus laying the foundation of "The Papal States." 

4. Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, was b. at Liege, Bavaria, 2- 

April A. D. 742. He was the great King of the Franks and 
Emperor of the Romans, and d. at Aachem, Germany, 28 Jan. 
814. 

5. Louis Le Pieux and Le Debonnaire, his son, was b. 778, and d. 

near Mainz, 840. He was Emperor of the Roman Empire. 

By his 1st marriage he had 3 sons, Lothair, Pepin, and Louis;, 
when he married a second time and had a son, Charles, to 
whom he designated Alamannia with title of King, it caused a 
rebellion by the brothers in which the father was made pris- 
oner, but later released and restored to his throne by Louis. 

6. Charles the Bald, his son, was b. at Frankfort on the Maine 13 

June 823, and d. near Mont Cenis, 6 Oct. 877. He was King of 
the Franks and Emperor of Rome. He invaded Italy and was 
crowned Emperor by Pope John V., A. D. 875. 

7. Judith, his daughter, having married in turn, Aethelwulf and 

Aethelbald, married Baldwin L, Earl of Flanders, son of Ingel- 
ramn, son of Lideric, d. 836, son of Saluet, Prince of Dijon by 
his wife Eringarde, dau. of Girard, Lord of Rousillon (Saluet 
was traditionally descended from King Priam of Troy, 1200 
B. C). 

8. Baldwin H., son, Count of Flanders, builder of the walls of 

Bruges and Ypres, married Aelfryth, daughter of Aelfred the 
Great and d. 918. 

9. Arnulph the Elder, their son, slew William Longsword, the Nor- 

man Duke, and m. Adela, dau. of the Count of Vermandois. 
ID. Baldwin HI., his son. Count of Flanders, promoted the industrial 
interest of his country by establishing the first weavers of 
Ghent and laid the foundation of its liberty by appointing 12 
vassals to constitute a Council. He d. A. D. 961. 

11. Arnulph the Younger, his son, succeeded as Count of Flanders, 

and d. A. D. 989. 

12. Baldwin IV. (Pulchra Barba), his son, succeeded, and fought 

successfully against the King of France and the Emperor 



THE 1 AMILY Ul' HAY 193 

Henry II., gaining from the latter the cession of Valenciennes, 
Walchcran, and the Island of Zealand. He d. A. D. 1036. 

13. Baldwin V., his son, succeeded as Count of Flanders. He m. 

Adcla, daughter of Robert of France. 

14. Matilda of Flanders, his eldest daughter, married 1053, William, 

Duke of Normandy, and was crowned Queen of England at 
Westminster, A. D. 1067. She is noted for having embroid- 
ered the Bayeux Tapestry. Her husband, William of Nor- 
mandy, having conquered the kingdom A. D. 1066, became King 
William I. of England. 

15. Gunnora, his youngest daughter, married William de Warren, 

created Earl of Surrey by William Rufus, his brother-in-law, 
and d. 1135. 

16. The Lady Adeline de Warren, their daughter, m. Henry, Prince 

of Scotland, eldest son of King David I., who predeceased his 
father. 

17. David, Earl of Huntingdon, their youngest son, married Maud, 

daughter of Hugh, 5th Earl of Chester, son of Randel or 
Ralph, 4th carl, son of Ralph de Meschines, Vicount de Bayeux 
of Normandy, 3d Earl, by Maud, sister of the ist Earl, Hugh 
Lupus, nephew of King William I. 

18. The Lady Isobel, daughter, m. Robert Bruce, le Noble, from 

whom the descent of King Robert Bruce (and of Colonel Hay) 
may be seen by referring to Table I., generations 13 to 34, in- 
clusive. 

TABLE in. 

1. Charles III., King of France, was b. A. D. 879, and d. A. D. 929. 

He was the son of King Louis II., the son of Charles the Bald, 
the son of King Louis Le Debonnaire, son of Charlemagne. 
In the year 911 he ceded Normandy, with the hand of his 
daughter Gisela, to the Norse viking, Rollo, son of Earl Rogn- 
vald, from whom we have seen were descended King Robert I., 
and the earls of Strathcarn. 

2. Rollo, banished from Scandinavia by King Ilarald Haarfager, 

sailed around Scotland and Ireland, ascended the Seine and 
forcibly seized Rouen and the lands between the Seine and 
the Epte, extorting from Charles III. of France the cession of 
Normandy, and the hand of his daughter Gisela. He d. in the 
year 930. 

3. William Longsword, their son, succeeded as Duke of Normandy, 

and ruled his dukedom from 927 to 943. whe he was murdered 
by Arnulph, Count of Flanders, in an island of the Somne. 

4. A daughter of William Longsword married Kenneth III., King of 

Scotland, and it will be found by referring to the first pages 
of this history that they were progenitors of Colonel Hay. 



194 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

Richard the Fearless, d. 996, succeeded his father as the 3d 
Duke of Normandy, and married a daughter of Count Hugh 
of Paris (styled Hugh the Great Count of Paris, who refused 
the Crown of France, conferring it on Rodolph, Duke of Bur- 
gundy, and married ist a daughter of Edward the Elder, and 
married 2d Hedwig, sister of Otho the Great, Emperor of Ger- 
many and the Roman Empire, and dau. of Henry I., King of 
Germany, b. 876, d. 936, surnamed The Fowler, who was one 
of the great rulers of Germany, and first of the Saxon line to 
reign over that country, he consolidated the monarchy and de- 
feated the Huns A. D. 933, son of Otho, Prince of Saxony), the 
brother of Eudes, King of France, and son of Robert, Duke of 
France, son of Robert the Strong, styled Count of Paris, slain 
A. D. 866, by the Norman chief, Hastings. 

5. Richard the Good succeeded his father, and was the 4th Duke of 

Normandy from 996 to 1036. 

6. Robert le Diable, 5th Duke, died at Nicea, 1035, returning from 

Palestine, sending to his son the message, "I am being borne 
to Paradise by four black devils," in allusion to the Moorish 
slaves who were bearers of his litter in which he was ill. 
Robert, the 6th Duke, succeeded. Under the law of the country, 
he was not allowed to marry a subject, but was faithful to 
Herleva, daughter of Fulbert, the tanner, by whom he had a 
son: — 
8. William the Conqueror, 7th Duke of Normandy, married his 
cousin Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Count Baldwin. 

It is related she at first refused to marry William ; enraged, 
he pushed her down, and rolled her over the ground. This 
rough wooing seems to have won her heart, for marrying Wil- 
liam, she made him a devoted wife, and the two were crowned 
A. D. 1067, King and Queen of England. From William I. 
and Queen Matilda, the descent of King Robert Bruce (and of 
Colonel Hay) has been already traced to Table H., 14-8; and 
then in Table I., 13-34. 

(There are likewise two additional lines of descent through 
King Henry I., which have been already given.) 

TABLE IV. 

Descent of Colonel Hay from King Alfred the Great : — 
Cerdic, a Saxon Ealderman, founded a settlement in England on the 
Hampshire coast, A. D. 495, assumed the title of King of the West Saxons 
519, and conquered the Isle of Wight, A. D. 530. From him descended : — 

1. Eegberht, King of Wessex, b. 775, d. 837, reigned 802-837. 

2. Ethelwulf, King of Wessex, his son, d. 858, married Osburgh, 

dau. of Oshac, his cupbearer. 



TIII<: I'AMILY OF HAY 195 

3. Aclfrtd the Great, King of West Saxony, his son, h. at Wantage, 
Rerksliirc, A. D. 849, d. A. D. 901, reigned 871-901. lie mar- 
ried Elswitha. 
4. Edward the lUder, liis sen, succeeded to the throne 901, and died 
at Parndon, Nortiiamptonshire, 925. 

5. Eadmund the Magnificent, his son, was born circa 922, and was 

assassinated on the 26tli May 946, by Leofa, a robber, at 
Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. He was King of Mercia and 
Wessex, subdued Cumbria, which he bestowed on Malcolm II. 
of Scotland. 

He married Aclgifu. 

6. Edgar the Peaceful, his son, b. 944, d. 975, succeeded his brother 

Eadwig to the throne. He ceded Lothian to Kenneth ; and 
married Elfrida. 

7. Aelthelred the Unready, b. 968, d. 1016, his son, married 2d 

the Lady Emma, dau. of Richard, son of William, son of Rollo, 
and by her was father of Edward the Confessor. 
By his 1st wife, Aelfaod, he had a son: — 

8. Edmund Ironsides, b. circa 989, ruled over West Saxony, while 

Canute the Dane governed East England. He was a brave 
Prince and an able sovereign. 

9. Aedward the Aetheling, his son, was sent, while a child, to 

Denmark by the Danish King, Hardicanute. Was later re- 
called from Hungary, where he had married a Hungarian lady 
of rank, by h-'s uncle Edward the Confessor, but was not recog- 
nized by the people as King, the crown being usurped by Har- 
old, son of Earl Godwan. 

He had a son Edgar Aetheling, and two daughters, who were 
given refuge at the Court of Malcolm of Scotland. 

10. The Princess Margaret, daughter of Aedward the Aetheling, 
styled St. Margaret for her saintliness, her charity to the poor, 
and her many other virtues. 

She married Malcolm IIL, styled Malcolm Cawnmohr, over 
whose fierce and generous nature she exerted a softening in- 
fluence. They had sons : — Edgar, Alexander, and David L, suc- 
cessively kings of Scotland. 

IT. David T. succeeded his brothers, who died without issue, as King 
of Scotland. He married Maud, daughter of Waltheof by his 
treacherous wife, Judith, niece of William the Conquerer. 

12. Henry, Prince of Scotland, their son, predeceased his father. 
He married the Lady Adeline de Warren, daughter of William, 
Earl of Warren and Surrey. He was a noble young prince, 
greatly admired and beloved. His early death was deplored 
not alone in Scotland but at the English Court. 



196 THE FAMILY OF HAY 

13. David, Earl of Huntingdon, their 3d son, married Maud, daugh- 

ter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, descended from King Henry I. 
of England. 

14. Isobel, their daughter, married Robert Bruce, Lord of Annan- 

dale, styled "Le Noble," first competitor for the crown. 

(For descent of Colonel Hay from this pair, refer to Table 
I, from 13 to 34.) 

All are familiar with the life of Alfred the Great — warrior, 
statesman, poet, musician, and scholar of his day and generation. 
He was the founder of Oxford University and of English prose. 
The following version of The Lord's Prayer is one of his transla- 
tions and will serve as a sample of the English of the ninth century: 

"Faeder ure thu the earth on heafenum, si thin mama gehal- 
god, to be cume thin rice, Gewurthe hin willa on earthen swa swa 
on heafenum, urne ge daegwanlican hlaf syle us to daeg; and for- 
gyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we firgivath urum gyltendum, and ne 
geladde thu us or consenung ac alyse us of yfle." 

Recommending to them for an inspiration the virtues of their 
great progenitor, and hoping they may model their lives upon His 
ivhose servant he was, we bid our readers farewell. 



Jittts 



3lnftrx 



MnhtK 



Auldearn, Battle of, 52 Colcock 

Aurora, Poem by Helen Hay, 152 Colcock 

Colcock 

Bacot, Millicent Jane, 183 Colcock 

Bailey, Errol, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, John, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, Lawton, 176 1S5 

Bailey, Lewis, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, Lily, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, Minnie, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, Peyton, 176 Colcock 

Bailey, Thomas, 176 Colcock 

Bain, Mr. George, 39, 47, 65 Colcock 

Balfour, Sir Andrew, 111 Colcock 

Balfour, Anna, 110 Colcock 

Balfour, Sir David, 110 Colcock 

Balfour, Isabel, 108, 113 Colcock 

Balfour, James, 110 Colcock 

Balfour, Jean, 110 Colcock 

Balfour, Michael, 109, 110 Colcock 

Barnwell, General John, 180 Colcock 

Bellenger, Dr. John, 145 Colcock 

Bothune, Coat of Arm.s, 112 Colcock 

Bethune, Dr. George, 108, 112, 118 Colcock 

Bethune, Jean, 118 Colcock 

Blair. Andrew, 110 Colcock 

Bonallo, Rev. James, 80 Colcock 

Bostick, Jennie, 185 Colcock 

Bostick. Richard M., 162 Colcock 

Boyes, Thomas, 103 Colcock 

Brewton, Francis, 183 Colcock 

Brewton, Mary, 183 Colcock 

Brewton, Col. Miles, 183 Colcock 

Brewton, Rebecca, 183 Colcock 

Brewton, Robert, 183 Colcock 

Brown, Susan Cynthia, 148 Colcock 

Bruce, King- Robert, 98 Colcock 

Bruce, David, 96, 99, 113 Colcock, 

Bruce, Helen, 9.5, 98 Colcock 

Bruce, James, 98, 100 Colcock 

Bruce, Marjorie. 44 Colcock 

Bruce; Mary Elizabeth, 101 Colcock 

Bruce, Robert, 13. 14, 15 Colcock 
Bruce, Robert, Descent from Norse Colcock 

Kings, 187 Colcock 

Colcock 

Caithness, Family of, 73 Colcock 

Calhoun, John Alfred, 183 Colcock 

Cardross, Lord, 121 Colcock 

Carlisle, Earl of, 112 Colcock 

Carre, Walter Wingate, 183 Colcock 

Carroll, George, 183 Colcock 

Cawdor, Early Thanes of, 59 Colcock 

Chisholm, Family of, 84 Colcock 

Chisholm, Muriel, 84 Colcock 

Clarke, Burney, 159 177. 

Colcock, Family of, 179 Colcock 

Colcock, Adelaide H., 1J|^ Colcock 

Colcock, Agnes, 183 Colcock 

Colcock, Agnes J., 186 183 

Colcock, Anna Eustace, 185 Colcock 

Colcock, Anna Stuart, 176 Colcock 



Annie Toomer, 182 
Augusta Palmer, 183 
Caroline Ann, 185 
Catherine, 186 
Charles J., 171, 183 
Charles Jones, 175, 177, 183, 

Clarence H., 182 
Cornelius Julius, 182 
Daniel De Saussure, 183 
Dessie, 182 
Edgar H., 182 
Edward Rowland, 181 
Elizabeth Hay, 176, 181 
Eliza Mary. 176, 181 
Emmeline Sarah, 182 
Errol Hav, 185 
Esther, 182 
Esther Hiitson, 176 
Frances Horton, 185 
Francis Horton, 185 
Franklin, 182 
Franklin Pierce, 182 
Helen Mclver, 186 
Henrietta, 182 
Henry, 182 
Henry Hay, 182 
Isabel. 1S3 
James Dunwody, 181 
James Stockman, 183 
Capt. John, 184 
John, 176, 181, 183, 185 
John Jnr., 183, 184 
Joseph W., 181 
Laurie Isabel, 182 
Mai North, 183 
Margaret Hamilton, 183 
Marion, 182 
Marion W., 176, 182 
Mary Mellicent, 176 
Martha Anna, 176, 181 
Mary Anna, "182 
May Clementine, 182 
Marv Rugeley, 183 
Mellicent, 181 
Millicent Woodward, 183 
Patti Lee Hay, 55 
Pauline Ladson, 182 
Richard Hutson, 176, 183 
Richard Hutson, Jnr., 183 
Richard W., 182, 183 
Samuel Hay, 176, 185 
Seaborn Jones, 185 
Theodora Octavia, 182 
Thomas Hutson, 175, 176, 
79. 181 
William. 182 
William Bostick, 186 
William Ferguson, 176. 182, 

^niliam Hutson, 181 
William Lewis, 176 



198 



INDEX 



UjiJ 



-Colcock. Woodward Hutson, 186 
Cullodtn Moor. Hattlt- of, 53 
CumniiiiK Family, 4(i 
•Cummins?, Mrs. Bruco, 77 
•Cumminf4:. Chark-s Lt-nox, 101 

D'Aubieny. Matilda. 32 
De Pass, Alva, 1S5 
De Pass, Anna, ISii 
Deus Misirtalur, Poem of, 173 
Deeds in Isle of Jamaica, 130 
Dewfos, Amelia L., 182 
Dewees, Emnullne, 182 
Dewees, Henrietta, 182 
Dewees, Dr. Joseph, 182 
Douglas, Kamlly of, 68 
Drummond. Marlot. 95 
Dunl)ar. I''amily of, 81 
Dunbar. Sir Archibald, 47, 80 
Dunbar. Isabel, SO 
Dundas, Mary, 101 

Early Scotch HIstorj', 1-23 
Eighth. Generation, 47 
Eighteenth Generation, 97 
Eleventh Generation, 63 
Elgin. Earl of, 101 
Ennobling of the Hays, 
Erroll, Earl of, 102 
Ersklne, Alice, 44 

Catherine, 120 

Sir John, 44 

Rachil, 120 

Thomas, 121 



24 



Erskine, 
Erskine, 
Erskine, 
Erskine. 



89 



86 



Fifteenth Generation, 

Fifth Generation, 37 

Findlater, Earls of, 46 

First Generation, 24 

Flag of Manassas, Poem of the, 172 

Forbes. Family of, 67 

Fourteenth Generation, 

Fourth Generation, 35 

Eraser, Family of, 37 

Eraser, .Ann, 159 

Furse, Rhoda. 161 

Gales, Isabel Cameron, 161 

Gantt, Family of, 163 

Gantt, Alma Devereux, 150 

Gantt, Anna Maud, 150 

Gantt, Annie. 150 

Gantt. Charles Dravton, 150 

Gantt. Edith P., 15u 

Gantt, EMnd Lucas, 150 

Gantt. Elizabeth Mackay, 150 

Gantt. Evelyn. 150 

Gantt. Fr< derick. 150. 159 

Gannt. Col. Frederick Hay. 149. 150 

Gantt. John Mnckall, 150, 159 

Gantt, Joseph, 151 

Gantt. Julia. 15it 

Gantt. Longstreet. 150 

Gantt. LouLse. I."i0 

Gantt. Mary Ann Caroline, 163 

Gantt. Marv Ix)ulsa, 150, 159 

Gantt, Richard, 150, 163 

Gantt, Richard A., 149 

Gantt, Capt. Richard Plantagenet. 149 

Gantt. Samuel. 150, i.^^g 

Gantt, Sarah Elizabeth. 150 

Gantt, Sant.a Anna, 150 

Gantt, Susan Cvnthia. 150 

Cantt. Waldo Douglas, 150 



Marlon, 166 
H.iy, 166 



26 



Gaunt. Elizabeth 

Gaunt, I'^rederlck 

Gaunt, Marshall, 106 

Gaunt, Richard. 106 

Gatlnrlng of the Hays. 

Gibson. Anna, 106 

Glgiiilliat, H.nry. 180 

Glen. Agnes. 99 

Glen. Andrew. 99 

Glen. Governor of So. Carolina, 

Glencairn. Countess of, 112 

Glover, S.illle, 171 

Glover, .'zanders L., 171 

Gordon, H<1< n, 109 

Gordon, M.irgan t. 46 

Graeme, William — Baron 

Graham, Sir John, 122 

Graham, Mrs. Laura N., 

Grant Coat of Arm.s, 121 

Grant. Mrs. Alexander. 121 

Grant. John. 121 

Gregorle, Agnes, 186 

Gregorie, Charl'-s, 1S6 

Charles Colcock, 

Josejjh. 1 86 

Loui.sa, 186 

Marv W. C, 

Thomas. 186 

Dr. Thom.a.s, 

William Douglas, 

Robert Godln. 186 



Gn g<irle, 
Gregorle, 
Gregorle. 
Gregorie, 
Gregorie, 
Gregorie, 
Gregorle. 
Guerard, 



99 



Kerdale. 57 
114 



186 



176 
186 



176 



Harald. Haarfager, 73, 78 

Has. 11, Carolln.-, 1.'3 

flawki s. Basilia. 117 

Hav.-kes. Edward. 116 

Hawkis, Richard. 117 

Hav Bible records, 141 

Hay Coat of Arms, 117 

Hav of Easter Kennet, 92 

Hay of Fosterseat. 89 

Hav family in Jamaica. 114 

Hay. Adeline D., 147 

Hay, Agnes. 112 

Hav. Albert. 161 

Hav, Alexander. 62, 63, 84, 88, 91. 92. 

95. 96. 98 
Hav. Sir .Alexander, 88, 94 
Hav. Alfred Octavius, 149 
Hav. Alfred Pinckney. 154 
Hav, Alvan, 155 
Hav, Andrew. 63, 98, 103, 104. 107, 

109. 110, 112 
Hav. Ann. no 
Hav, Ann Hawkrs, 1, 111, 116, 118, 

121, 127, 134. 140. 1S7. 191 
Hav. Ann Hawkes, descent from 

King Alfred. 194 
Hav. Ann Hawkes, descent from 

Charlemagne and William I, 191 
Hav, Ann H.iwke.'s. descent from 

Earlv Xorse Kings. 1S7 
TTav. .Ann Mister, 133, 141 
Hay. Arthur. 151, 161 
T^nv. Arthur Erroll, 151 
Hay. Augustus, 145 
ITay. Barh.ira. 110 
Hay. Belle Cameron. 161 
Hay. Burvvell Boykin, 159 
Hay. Caroline P< tigru. 162 
Hay. Charles Colcock. 14 9, 150 
Hay. Charle.q Jenkin.s, 170 
Hay, Charlotte. 145 
Hay. Christian. 103 



200 



i 



INDEX 



Hay, Dr. Christopher Gadsen, 155, 

162 
Hay, Clarence, 151 
Hay, Clementine C, 147 
Hav, Daniel, 94 
Hay, David, 81, 84, 88, 91, 95, 96, 97, 

99 
Hay, Edith, 154 
Hay, Egidia, 46 
Hay, Bldred Gaunt. 154 
Hav, Eleanor, 145 
Hav, Elizabeth, 133 
Hav, Eljzabfth Mary, 145, 175 
Hay, Ellen Reynolds, 150, 159 
Ha'i', Emily Kathleen, 171 
Hay, Emma, 151 
Hay, Erroll, 151, 161 
Hay, EiToldine, 159 
Hay, Esther, 133 
Hay, Eugene Gordon, 147 
Hay, Euphemia, 46 
Hay, Frances Jane, 160 
Hay, Frances Snowden, 159 
Hay, Frederick, 145, 159, 185 
Hay, Frederick Jay, 143, 147, 148, 

153, 159 
Hay, George, 84, 89, 91, 102, 103, 110 
Hay, Gertrude Agnes, 171 
Hay, Gilbert, 15, 16l 
Hay, Sir Gilbert, 46 
Hay, Gladys, 155 
Hay, Grizel, 103, 113 
Hay, Harold Hawkes, 159 
Hay, Harriet Ford, 160 
Hay, Harriet Young, 147 
Hay, Harry Hasell, 154 
Hay, Hasell, 154 

Hay, Helen, 46, 98, 110, 151, 161 
Hay, Henry, 154 
Hay, Henry Gumming, 154, 171 
Hay, Hugh, 155 
Hay, Rev. Hugh, P. D., 154 
Hay, Isabella, 116, 118 
Hay, James. 62, 91, 98, 99, 102, 111 
Hay, Sir James, 46 
Hay, James Thornwell, 159 
Hay, Janet Scott, 142 146 
Hay, Jean, 108, 112, 120, 155 
Hay, John, 46, 80, 84, 86, 88, 95, 98, 

99, 103, 104, 113, 159 
Hay, Sir John, 20, 46 
Hay, Leila, 161 

Hay, Lena Pinckney, 154, 171 
Hay, Lena St. Clair, 154, 171 
Hay, Lestarjette Glover, 171 
Hay, Lewis, 151 
Hay, Lewis Gordon, 161 
Hay, Sir Lewis John Erroll, 26 63 
Hay, Lewis Scott, 143, 147, 149, 159 
Hay, Lide, 159 
Hay, Louisa. 147, 159 
Hay, Malcolm, 159 
Hay, Margaret. 99 
Hay, Marie, 109 
Hay, Marion Hnvwood, 166 
Hay, Marshall Dnwnes 161 
Hay, Martha, 142, 145, 146, 160 
Hay, Martha Hawkes, 147 
Hay, Martha Hutson, 149, 166 
Hay, Marv, 142, 159, 162 
Hay, Mary Caroline,' 166 
Hay, Mary Ella, 161 
Hay, Marv Er.<?kine, 171 
Hay, Mary I>ouisa, 149 
Hay, Mary Pinckney, 154 



Hay, Mary Seton, 161 

Hay, Mary Susan, 159 

Hay, Matilda, 145 

Hay, May, 154 

Hay, Michael, 98, 105, 108, 112, 113, 

120, 130, 135, 142 
Hay, Michael — his will, 118 
Hay, Minnie Lee, 159 
Hay, Morritt, 155 
Ha.y, Nannie, 161 
Hay, Nellie, 159 
Hay, Olive, 159 

Hay, Oscar Payne, 149, 161, 162 
Hay, Patti Lee, 171, 185 
Hay, Patrick, 84 
Hay, Percy Douglas, 155 
Hay, Peter, 109 
Hay, Peyton, 151 
Hay. Richard Gaunt, 166 
Hay, Richard Marion, 171 
Hay, Rosa Isabel, 147 
Hay, Rosalie, 161 
Hav, Ross, 151 
Hay, Ruth, 154 

Hay, Samuel, 130, 142, 144, 159 
Hay, Samuel Burney, 159 
Hay, Rev. .Samuel Hutson, 149, 159 
Hay, Samuel Jenkins, 166, 167 
Hay, Samuel Marion, 171 
Hay, Samuel Montgomery, 171 
Hay, Sarah, 151 
Hay, Sarah Porcher, 162, 166 
Hay, Sophie, 159 
Hay, Susan Cvnthia, 149, 169 
Hay, Susan Emilv, 145, 147, 171 
Hay, Thomas, 104, 106, 109, 110, 130, 

135, 141, 142, 145, 159 
Hay, Rev. Thomas Park, 159 
Hay, Thomas Theodore, 161 
Hay, Dr. Thomas Theodore, 149. 160 
Hay, Walter, S9 
Hay, Walter Douglas, 161 
Hay, "Walter Scott, 159 
Hay, William, 47, 63, 64, 65, 135, 143, 

145, 151 
Hay, William Augustus, 149, 159 
Hay, William Henry, 145, 162, 163, 

171 
Hay, William Richmond, 141 
Hay, William Smith, 142, 159 
Hayne, Isaac, 180 
Heather-Bell. Poem of the, 54 
Het, Mar5'. 13 7 
Hej'ward, Mary Caroline, 184 
Hey ward, Ogier. ]46 
Heyward, Robert, 146 
Hoffman, i^braham S., 176 
Hoffman, Edward, 176 
Hoffman, Edward H., 176 
Hoffman, Henry S., 176 
Horton, Lucy Frances, 184 
Huguenin, Emmeline Lucia, 182' 
Huguenin, Sarah, 1S2 
Huntingdon, David of, 14 
Wntson, Ann Barnwell, 146 
Hutson, Anne, ISO 
Hutson, Annie, 146 
Hut.'ion, AugTjsta, 14 6 
Huston, Charles J. C, 182 
Hutson, Charlotte Matilda, 146 
Hut.son, Rev. Edward Palmer, 146 
Hut.son, Elizabeth, ISO 
Hutson, Emmeline Colcock, 146 
Hutson, Esther, ISO 
Hutson, Esther Main, 146 
Hutson, Florie, 146 



INDEX 



201 



Hiitson, 

rintsoii, 

Hiitsiin, 

Hut -son, 

Ihitson, 

Hutson, 

Ilutsoii, 

Hutson, 

I lutson, 

Uiitsun, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Hutson, 

Huts..!i. 

Hutson, 

Hutsi.n, 

Hutson, 



Isaac, 1 10 

Janus OnBorlo, 182 

Jani> Di' S.. 140 

John, 140 

Louiso D' Aubrey, 182 

Mac, 140 
140 

140, ISO 
Anna. 1S2 
Wootlwaid, 
•nt, 140 

182 



ISl 



Maria, 

Marv, 

Marv 

Marv 

Mcllic 

Richanl, 180, 

Sally. 140 

Soiiliic, 140 

Theodora C, 182 

Dr. 'I'homas, 14.'., ISn 

l>r. 'I'hoinas. Jnr.. 140 

Major Thonia.s, 180 

R.v. William. 140, ISO 

William C. 182 

William Main. 140 



Inshock Castle, 50 
Izard, Mary, 183 

Jenkins, Gov»^rnor Charles J. 
Johnson. H.irrii t Young, 147 
Johnston, Cliristophcr, 104 
Jones, Major John 
Jones, Joseph, 183 
Jones, Mary Robert, 1S5 
Jones, Millicent, 183 
Jones, SeaI)orn. IS.t 
Jones, William Branch. 161 



Keith, Christian, 39 
Keith, Family of, 39 
Kemper, Colonel Del, 159 
Kenney, Elizabeth Mary, 
Kennoy, John. 145 
Keteltas. Rev. Abraham, 
Kilravock. Family of, 86 
Kinnoul. Earl of. 111 
Kycld. Dr. John. 119 
Kydd, Martha, 119 



145 



142, 
139 



145 



La 
La 
La 
La 
La 
La 
La 
La 
La 



35 



Hav, 
Ha.y. 
Hav, 
Hav, 
H.iv, 
Hav, 
Hav, 
Hav, 
Hay. 



Sir David, 31, 32 

John, 31, 57. 58 

Nicholas, 31 

Sir John, 37, 39, 43, 44, 61 

Peter, 30 

Rob.rt. 30, 31 

Thomas. 31 

\\'illiam. 24, 62, 

Sir William, 29, 



80 
30, 



31, 34, 



101 
ISO 



I-audprdale. Earl of, 
La^vton. Sailie. 176 
IvC Serrurier. Jacf(iJes 
Lewis. Mary Ellen, 175 
Lewis. Colonel John, 175 
Lewis. William Lvnn. 175 
Livniffstone. Janet, 138 
Livingstone. Robert James 
Lyman. Joseph W.. 182 ' 

ATacbeth. 51 
Macey. Mary. !'"> 
Mackay. Ella Elliott, 150 
Mackay. Mary. 146 
Mackintosh. Clan or 55 
Mackintosh. Janet 57 
Matrrath. Mary Fuller. 176 
Mam. Ann, 118 



138 



Maine, William, ISO 
Mar, I'amlly of. 90 
Marjoribanks, Andrew, 103 
Martin, Abr.im Marshall. 176 
Martin, Annie Lewi.s. 176 
Martin, Elizabeth Marv, 176 
Mikell, Jennie, 159 
Mister, Ann. 116 
Mobil y. Laiigdon Cheves, 170 
Molr. Robert Leslie. 53 
Monro, Adolphus, 181 
Moray, Earl of, 5S, 104 
Morris, Isabell.i, 122 
I^Iorris, Lewis, 132 
Motto. Jacob, 183 

Now York Militia, 134 
Nicholson, M.in,'ant, 111 
Nicholson, Sir William. Ill 
Nineteenth (bneratlon, 102 
Ninth Generation, 58 

O'Bannon. Susan. 160 

Odell, Susannah. 136 

Odum, Sailie, 151 

Ogilvh', Famllv of, 67 

Ogilvie. Sir Walter, 46 

Orange County Volunteers. 135 

Orkney anil Caithne.s.s. Family of. 73 

Otey, Bishop James H.. 185 

Palmer. Augrusta, 183 

Palmer, Dr. Ben. 183 

Palmer, Sarah, 146 

I'arish R( cords in Jamaica. 133 

Park. Mary Elizabeth, ISl 

Paton. Mr. Henry. 97, 102 

Paul. Sir James Ralfour, 44 

Peoples. Benjamin. 161 

I'erroneau. Arthur, ISO 

I'etmalin. Eva de, 31 32 

Peyton, Sarah, 150 

Phantom Host. Poem of the. 155 

Picholl. Ann. 122 

Pinckney. Alfred, 155 

Pinckney, Charles. 183 

Pinckney. Ch.irles Cotesworth. 183 

Pinckney, Marv. 154 

Pinckney. Robert, 154 

Porcher. Riichel. 145 

Roed. Richard. 176 

Rh. tt. Haskell. 154 

Rhett. James. 154 

Rhett. .Marv. 154 

Rh<tt. Ruth. 154 

Riclimoiid. W.ilter 116 

River of Death. Poem of the, 171 

Robert II, King, 4 4 ^. m 

Robort.s, Joh,inna, 1'' 

Robertson. Magdalen" 

Rose, Alexander, 140 

Ro.se, Dr. Arthur. S4 

Ro.«?o. .Margaret. 88 

Ro.se, Marie, 81 

Ro.s.s. Earl of. 46 

Rugoley, Mattie, 183 

Saga of Harald H.-.arfager, 73 
Sau.s.suro. Do. Charle.s, 146 
Saussure, Louis, 14C 
Sail s.«,„v Thomas, 146 
Scoto-Irish King.s. Table of " 
Second Cener.-.tion. 31 ' " 

t>€tons of Touch, 46 



102 
140 



202 



INDEX 



Seventeenth Generation, 95 

Seventh Generation^ 44 

Sinclair, Sir John, 46 

Sixteenth Generation, 92 

Sixth Generation, 39 

Sharpington, Ann, 124 

Sliinner, Lavinia, 150 

Smith Family of New York, 135 

Smitli, Anne, 140 

Smith, Catherine, 140 

Smith, Charles Bainbridge, 139 

Smith, Elizabeth, 136 

Smith, Elizabeth Blanche, 139 

Smith, James, 139 

Smith, John, 139, 140 

Smith, Rev. John, 136 

Smith, Joshua Hett, 128, 139. 140 

Smith, Margaret, 140 

Smith, Margaret Seabrook, 183 

Smith, Martha, 127, 136, 140 

Smith, Mary, 139 

Smith, Samuel, 129 

Smith, Sarah, 139, 141, 145 

Smith, Susannah, 138 

Smith, Thomas, 136, 139 

Smith, William, 136, 138 

Smith, Judge William, 127, 136 

Soulis, De, Julianne, 24 

Spicer, Elizabeth, 101 

Stewart, Family of, 44 

Stewart, Earls of Angus, 72 

Stewart, Margaret, 20, 44 

Stewart, Walter, 44 

Stockman, Agnes Hannah, 183 

Strathearn, Gilbert, Earl of, 32 

Stroman, Minnie, 151 

Stronach, Frank Morton, 161 

Sutherland, Alexander, 83 

Sutherland, Duke of, 86 

Sutherland, Janet, 88 

Sutherland-Duffus, Family of, 87 



Tenth Generation, 62 
The Rose, Poem of, 152 
Third Generation, 32 
Thirteenth Generation, SO 
Thirty vs. Thirty, Fight of, 56 
Torrans, John, 139 
Townsend, Edith, 160 
Townsend, Dr. William, 146 
Tov/nsend, William Hay, 160 
Townsend, William Hutson, 160 
Twelfth Generation, 64 
Twentieth Generation, 106 
Twenty-first Generation, 113 
Twenty-second Generation, 127 
Twenty-fifth Generation, 167 
Twenty-fifth Generation — B, 177 
Twenty-fourth Generation, 163 
Twenty-fourth Generation — -B, 175- 
Twenty-third Generation, 144 

Urquhart of Cromartie, 65 
Urquhart, Katherine, 65 

Venning, Susan, 159 
Villers, Elizabeth, 116 

Webb, Elizabeth, 116 
"Wigg, William Hazzard, 180 
Wilkins, Family of, 121 
Wilkins, Ann, 11.5, 121 
W^ilkins, Esther, 113, 122 
Wilkins, Isaac, 115 
Wilkins, Johanna, 116 
Wilkins, Martin, 115, 121 
Wilkins, Sarah, 120 
Winne, Annie, 159 
Winrahame, Jean, 97 
Woodrow, David S., 176 
Woodrow, Lavolotte Holmes, 176 
Woodward, Family of, 181 



